RE: A question on Irises from Schreiner's
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- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:45:02 -0700
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Great climate, soil, and IRRIGATION will do that for your rhizomes. Little
dried out cylinders typically got less food and drink. Anything grown from
seed would be a mystery iris, not a "named" variety. We call that
"hybridizing". Most of those seeds will produce garbage; a very small
percentage will be nice. They will NOT breed true. The genes are not
"pure"; they are a very curious mix and will never mix the same way twice.
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From: tgreaves@primeco.com[SMTP:tgreaves@primeco.com]
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:16 AM
To: iris-talk@egroups.com
Subject: [iris-talk] A question on Irises from Schreiner's
I bought several Irises recently from Schreiner's. I'm very pleased with
their
quality and packaging. But this weekend I got wondering about their shape.
They are almost spherical with good roots at the bottom. The only clump of
Irises I've ever dug up were more cylindrical like little sausage links.
This
got me wondering if the ones I bought had been grown from seed instead of
tubor
division. Does anyone know?
This is my first year growing Irises and I'm very excited about it. I used
to
have a vineyard and we only propagated vines through cuttings because the
seeds
were totally unpredictable. Are Iris seeds true to the parents if they
have
been carefully segregated from other varieties or do you have to only go
from
tubors?
