CULT: rhizome shape
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- Subject: CULT: rhizome shape
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- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:54:30 -0700 (PDT)
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--- tgreaves@primeco.com wrote:
>
>
> 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?
>
V. sez:
The rhizome shape is at least partly dependent on the
soil. I have heavy clay, and my rhizomes are small and
round. I have given some of the same cultivars to someone
in the NJ Pine Barrens (sand), and their rhizomes did have
the elongated shape you mentioned, even though they never
did here.
> 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?
>
As others have already said, seeds will not give the
same cultivar. Only divisions from the rhizome will.
=====
Vince Lewonski
vincelewonski@yahoo.com
Secane, Pennsylvania, USA Zone 6b
"I want to be Bob Dylan; Mr. Jones wishes he were someone just a little more funky..."
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