Re: HYB: White Lightning
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- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:15:11 -0400
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I've had WL for at least 20 years and it has always been a vigorous grower
with little or no tenderness. It blooms early and we've had mornings when
it got down to well below freezing with no damage.
Al Bullock
Loudoun County zone 7
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From: <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: White Lightning
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> > Couple this with the story of WHITE LIGHTNING coming from a pod which
> > produced 3 seed (that's what I was told) and you have some great
> > incentives for the back yard hybridizer! Anything can, and does,
> > happen.
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> > Betty / Got rain, could use more, in the lovely Bowling Green KY USA
> > zone 6
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> Betty, how does WL do for you? It got zapped here by a frost/freeze
> years ago for being hyper-active in the early spring. My seedlings
> from it were very tender, too. I think I have read warnings about it
> from other sources, also. Its tenderness may be mentioned in our
> archives.
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> I am not sure if I know many WL children.
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> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
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