Re: CULT: bloomout

In a message dated 9/30/2002 10:48:07 AM Central Daylight Time, 
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:


> I would say you've led a very sheltered iris life or grow irises in
> 'iris heaven.'
> 

I would expand that some. I live a sheltered life constructing my own 
realities. <g> I owned Hello Darkness in 1995. Sometime between then and now 
it died. I know not from what. In all probability soft rot just playin' the 
odds here. The others you mention I have never grown. I reacquired Hello 
Darkness this fall. I have had seedlings die after putting up one stalk and 
then failing to reproduce. I have not considered this bloom out.

To me bloom out is production of two or more axillary buds, usually several, 
that mature and bloom at the same time and then fail to reproduce new 
axillary buds. Or, a newly planted rhizome that has the central fan and newly 
produced axillary buds bloom at the same time and fail to produce new growth. 
I may have the bloom out concept wrong. On the plus side, irises that 
routinely exhibit bloom out could conceivably harbor untapped potential for 
anyone attempting' to hybridize everbloomin' irises.

It is also possible that one here, Proud Tradition, bloomed out. It produced 
about 8 stalks, very early in the season. It was the first to bloom that 
year. When I examined the blooming clump it had significant soft rot in the 
clump. I took no action. This occurred in 2001 bloom season. The clump had 
been moved, separated and divided the previous year.

I once paid $3.00 to go to a fireworks show and was awed. A massive clump of 
irises with 20 or so stalks doin' a bloom out might be worth the price of 
admission, it's the patience required that hurts. <g>

Smiles,
Bill Burleson 7a/b
Old South Iris Society



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