Re(2): Iris Douglasiana seed germination

danm@marmot.net writes:
>Once they're 6 inches tall, I've found that more sun will make them grow
>faster.  With twice a week water, they'll even tolerate the full sun and
>heat here in central San Jose.  In shade, they'll get by with no dry
>season
>water at all and slow down in the summer, losing some leaves, then come
>back
>in the fall with the return of the rains.
>
>It'll take a couple of years to flower from seed.  If these are hybrids,
>like Pacific Coast, you'll get a mixed bag of flowers, some looking like
>bland Dietes without the yellow, other plants with more interesting purple
>and gold and blue and white.

Thanks for the info. I'm mostly looking for vegetation right now as i'd
plant them near the "dry" stream we have (it's lacking in plants that
"look" like they grow near streams). The flowers would be a bonus (of
course, i collected seeds for flowers, but we can wait two years :)). I
dont think these are hybrids because all the flowers look the same on all
the plants throughout campus (they're into just the species, not the
hybrids, *i think*). 

Where I live it's foggy enough that they can probably go without water,
but I do water some (just the area immediately close to the house, the
rest, I allow to dry out).
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