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Muddymitts Feb 4, 2014 1:23 PM CST |
How exciting Kent!! ![]() ![]() Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com) |
lovemyhouse Feb 4, 2014 11:46 PM CST |
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crowrita1 Feb 5, 2014 7:47 AM CST |
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irisarian Feb 5, 2014 12:20 PM CST |
10" of snow this morning & seedling box buried underneath in their trench. |
That's why I start mine under lights in the basement. If I left them outside during the winter, it'd be June before they germinated, they wouldn't be big enough to transplant into the seedling beds until August or September, and it would 2016 or 2017 before most bloomed. This way, they usually get planted in the seedling beds just before the TB bloom begins, have a month or so of nice weather to settle in and grow before the heat of summer slows them way down, and have all of fall to grow big and produce increase. With any luck at all, 80 - 90% will bloom in 2015. Surprisingly, that extra year makes a big difference in terms of space dedicated to seedling beds. The sooner they bloom, the sooner they get lined out or (more likely) turned into compost. |
Paul2032 Feb 5, 2014 3:59 PM CST |
And the sooner they bloom the sooner you can use them in your breeding program........ Paul Smith Pleasant Grove, Utah |
Muddymitts Feb 5, 2014 6:05 PM CST |
Love your new avatar, Paul!! ![]() Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com) |
Name: Dennis Gilbertsville, KY/ Lahaina, HI (Zone 7a) Director, TBIS dd95172 Feb 6, 2014 5:13 PM CST |
Kent, I also started my seeds last fall using info from one of your earlier threads and comments you made in a tree mail. They are growing under lights in my basement this year rather than depending on germination over winter and in spring as I have done for the past 7 years. Shown below are the last pictures taken on 12/29/13 just before heading to Fl Keys for winter. I expect they will have grown quite a bit by the time I return in March. Should be easy to plant the plugs and get well established before the summer heat sets in. ![]() ![]() |
ARUBA1334 Feb 8, 2014 12:06 AM CST |
Kent those look really good a great start everything I had from Nobel Gesture which blooms really early like I Must Have It was the same way it was way ahead of the rest. We potted up all of my seeds from this year today, I started them a week later than last year and had quite a few of the earlier blooming varities had roots starting and trying to grow through the paper towel, while some of the late ones showed nothing ![]() I would love to look at some of your pictures of last years seedlings ![]() |
irisarian Feb 8, 2014 4:36 PM CST |
yellow at the hafts not good color? why? |
lovemyhouse Feb 8, 2014 5:30 PM CST |
I like it. ![]() It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Muddymitts Feb 8, 2014 5:43 PM CST |
Me too -- it's a beautiful flower! I don't know about the others Kent, but I'd love to see your seedlings!! Even if it's *again*! ![]() Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com) |
tveguy3 Feb 8, 2014 6:08 PM CST |
Ditto on showing the seedlings! Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities," |
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, of course. The yellow in the heart of this flower is a a muddy yellow and creates an almost grey effect from a distance. There are grey iris that are very attractive, Haunted Heart is one that quickly comes to mind, but this isn't one of them. Given the parentage behind it, I do hope it can give something good down the road. |
Muddymitts Feb 8, 2014 7:28 PM CST |
Odd -- it doesn't look muddy in the photos....................... But I'm sure that you know what you're doing and are the one to be making these decisions. ![]() Thoughts become things -- choose the good ones. (www.tut.com) |
ARUBA1334 Feb 8, 2014 9:18 PM CST |
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irisarian Feb 9, 2014 1:03 PM CST |
How about some median seedlings?![]() ![]() ![]() |
crowrita1 Feb 9, 2014 1:07 PM CST |
I really like those stripped falls on that last one, Lucy! Any plans for that one ?...Arlyn |
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