Re: RE: CULT: Fighting Bloomout

In a message dated 9/24/2005 5:05:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<<I'm dosing the little bald piece of DIGNITY DANCER with root  stimulating
concoction (happen to have some on hand), but this guy is  probably too
far gone by this late for it to do any  good.>>
 
I had three or four seedlings this spring that put up a stalk and no  
increases. Years ago,  I saved a particularly pretty purple seedling  by setting a 
pod.  Or so I thought.  It put up two increases, one of  which bloomed that 
fall, and the other the next spring.  I don't fight it  in the seedling beds any 
more.  Don't want to perpetuate something that's  going to be a problem.  
 
Last year NOBLE DRAGON came from OZ with no increases.  When it made  no 
effort to grow I was concerned.  I dug, nicked, and moved it, all with  no 
results.  By spring it was gone, but I suspect it was dead long  before.  Nicking, 
was one of many techniques I'd read about years  ago.  I think it was supposed 
to create a shock effect, but, in this case,  it didn't work.  
 
My loss of ORANGE STAR to bloom out started my quest for information!   One 
of my all time favorite irises and it was a great personal loss.  I was  told 
by some that OS was prone to bloom out.  
 
 
Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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