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Re: Re: Clams on the Halfshell

Chris: I don't think this has any thing to do with weather.  It has an unstable make up (as I see it)  Other buds are forming like this on the same stem below the main terminal bud, and this  bud was beautiful and fully formed with flounces.  There has been wonderful weather for months.  The bed was very neglected for three years at least......No Fertilizer of any kind.....  This and many other unstable manifestations are what have led me to make fewer and fewer of the spaceage crosses....I still try but do not focus as much as I did in the past.  I'll wait till some of those more stable Iris come out of the larger fields that can deal with the work load involved in getting through the mess of unruly progeny.  Paul Hill

> > > > Perhaps some cultivars or possibly all of them are genetically 
unstable to some degree and fluctuations is temperature cause this. 
Paul, has your weather this year differed dramatically from the 
previous two years ?  Did you say this plant is growing in a 
neglected bed ?  This would shed light on the weather hypothesis.  If 
some sort of chemical reaction which determines appendage expression 
is occurring, heat could be accelerating the reaction.  As I've seen 
with some of the hydrogenations I used to run at work, temperature 
was always a critical factor.  Some reactions would go so fast at 
higher temperatures that I could literally over reduce the molecule 
creating an undesirable compound.  Something like this could be 
occurring on top of the micro nutrient theories.  



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wrote:
> Too much bone meal?

Perhaps some cultivars or possibly all of them are genetically
unstable to some degree and fluctuations is temperature cause this.
Paul, has your weather this year differed dramatically from the
previous two years ?  Did you say this plant is growing in a
neglected bed ?  This would shed light on the weather hypothesis.  If
some sort of chemical reaction which determines appendage _expression_
is occurring, heat could be accelerating the reaction.  As I've seen
with some of the hydrogenations I used to run at work, temperature
was always a critical factor.  Some reactions would go so fast at
higher temperatures that I could literally over reduce the molecule
creating an undesirable compound.  Something like this could be
occurring on top of the micro nutrient theories. 

I interested in trying some of the more genetically stable plants
that Mike Sutton is talking about.

For what it's worth, this is just mind babble at this point.

Chris

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