RE: CULT:Is potting TBs really necessary \ u

From: "Chris Hollinshead" <cris@netcom.ca>

People have different reasons for potting such as climate, timing,
convenience etc..
for example:
Walter M among other reasons because of the extreme temperatures he
experiences in his geographic location during the time he normally receives
his orders.

Myself (Chris H) because I do not have the beds ready yet for the newly
received plants and I want to get them started growing and root systems
established as the end of the growing season looms near. I have potted TBs
and SDBs for this reason this year. Its a solution that (even with late
planting into the garden beds) in my case will hopefully reduce overwinter
losses and frost heaving to almost nil.
More gardens still to build to hold new iris over the next two weeks...
potted iris on the back patio are meanwhile smiling in the warm autumn sun.
Roots coming out the bottom of the pots after approx a month. (and that with
a start of no roots at all!)

It sounds like you received your new TBs at a good time for you and they
will have had lots of time to establish themselves before the Quebecois
winter strikes.

Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario  Canada  zone6b
AIS(Region 16), CIS, SSI
Director-Canadian Iris Society
Newsletter Editor-Canadian Iris Society
E-mail:  cris@netcom.ca <c*@netcom.ca>
CIS website:  http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS.html
Siberian-Species Convention 2003 website: 
http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/sib2003.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Darlington [c*@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 22:28
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] CULT:Is potting TBs really necessary ?
>
>
> From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
>
> Gee whiz , All this talk about potting is making me wonder if people are
> going to extremes for the common TB cultivar.  When my rhizomes came
> from Sutton's in July , they were tossed them into my son's little
> wading pool for an hour and planted  directly into the scorching hot
> sunshine with a handful of bonemeal each .  I made sure I watered them
> deeply before bed and did the same immediately after work with great
> results , even with the record breaking heat waves that we had here this
> year.  BTW , I've enjoying rebloom as I speak on Low Ho Silver and
> Istanbul with stalks on Glowing Seraphim and Immortality.  The other
> thirty  or forty new TB additions are increasing impressively.
>
> I do admit though , that if I was dealing with forty or fifty dollar
> introductions , I'd be tempted to pot.  Why does it always seem that the
> more you worry about a particular rhizome , the slower it grows....
>
> By the way , I grow only bearded iris , and my comments are concerning
> bearded only.
>
> Chris Darlington
>


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