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Paul T

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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #195 on: April 10, 2009, 11:22:15 AM »
Beautiful flowers, as always.  I am still trying to work out exactly when to start watering the onco/reglio Iris types..... is it once the leaves start shooting?  I have managed to muddle Iris dardanus through a number of years (mostly by dumb luck I think  ;D) and have grown Iris atropurpurea and Iris jordana successfully from seed somehow.  This is the first year I have left these really dry over summer, and they are all looking quite good and just starting to shoot leaves.  The Iris dardanus in particular is looking better than it has in the last few years, in fact it has multiplied.  But.... should I commence watering as soon as the leaves start emerging, or should I wait a bit longer?

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Thanks in anticipation.
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #196 on: April 11, 2009, 01:23:02 PM »
This is the only hybrid I grow between Iris paradoxa subsp. paradoxa and Iris iberica subsp. iberica. a gift from J. Lonsdale, thank you John!. ;)

Paul, I think you should wait more time, as little leaves usually means very few new roots and maybe they won't be able to managed excesive moisture until the rhizome make bigger radical system.
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #197 on: April 11, 2009, 10:02:21 PM »
Rafa,

Thanks.  The leaves on dardanus (the most advanced at this stage) are about an inch high.  I'm about to repot them anyway, so I will check out the roots at that point.  That will also give them a little moisture from the potting mix, without making them at all wet.  I had hoped to repot them a little earlier, but it never happened.  ::)
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #198 on: April 11, 2009, 11:57:38 PM »
Wow Rafa, never have seen a picture of this hybrid before - nice one!

Quote from: Rafa on April 09, 2009, 08:44:23 PM
...the plant I grow of Iris susiana is very very close to Iris kirkwoodii subsp. kirkwoodii but not like this plant, It is very close to Hans's clones of Iris kirkwoodii subsp. kirkwoodii, indeed, they are exactly the same plant even in measures!

All this species of the susiana-complex are very close and it is very difficult to separate them because many are told to be quite variable in its habitat - here are two actual pictures of the plant Rafa mentioned. I received it as Iris kirkwoodii - but Brian Mathew mentioned for turkey also an I.sp.aff. sofarana...
« Last Edit: April 12, 2009, 02:02:09 PM by Hans A. »
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #199 on: April 12, 2009, 02:04:29 PM »
A nice view from today - two Iris paradoxa forms flowering together with Cyclamen persicum.
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #200 on: April 12, 2009, 06:50:04 PM »
Very nice group of species!
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #201 on: April 12, 2009, 06:58:14 PM »
Hans and Rafa,
Your kirkwoodii are really extraordinary, probably a good candidate to be the King of all Oncos!!! :o :o
Congratulations.
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #202 on: April 12, 2009, 11:38:39 PM »
Superb Hans!
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #203 on: April 13, 2009, 08:27:41 AM »
Hans you certainly have some pretty special oncos - thanks again for sharing. Yes that I. kirkwoodii is superb.
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #204 on: April 13, 2009, 12:43:44 PM »
Hans , wonderful flowers on your kirkwoodii ssp. k., just the right size !!!
 also admiring your 2 forms of i. paradoxa -looks as if they are growing through
 concrete ?or is this a stonewall behind them?
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #205 on: April 13, 2009, 09:34:29 PM »
Thanks for your comments -
Oron i think there are a lot of candidates for king of all Oncos - starting with Iris mariae, Iris lortetii, Iris iberica ssp. elegantissima, Iris meda...(to be continued)  ::) - I would not know which three Oncos I would take with me on a lonely island... 8)
Otto - you are right - in the back(south) there is a wall, which give the Oncos a light shadow to prevent this site for the northern species becomes to hot in summer.
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #206 on: April 14, 2009, 11:22:42 AM »
Hi everybody, and thank you for such amazing plants.
Here in south-east France, the season begins with hybrids :

'Zizah', classic and of unknow parentage

and my own Iris sari x kirkwoodii (seedling of 1993 : at that time, I didn't know oncos are strictly allogames...) [I've just put pictures of the parentage here http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/les-iris-f21/oncocyclus-2009-t3052.htm#33230 ]
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #207 on: April 14, 2009, 12:05:51 PM »
Biodiversite,

Great pics.  Love the colour combination in the first one, and that fantastic veining in the second ones.  Great stuff!!  8)
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #208 on: April 14, 2009, 03:06:28 PM »
Elles sont superbes Bio !!  :o
Stunning flowers !
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Re: Oncos 2009
« Reply #209 on: April 14, 2009, 07:45:49 PM »
Very nice indeed Bio.
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