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H dumortierii

May 13, 2012 08:00

H dumortierii bloomed late today and it is a week earlier than last year.

H dumortierii Note the dark brownish outside of sepals. The buds are not as sessile as H middendorfii and they have brownish red tips.

Bloom Date Data

May 6, 2012 08:00

The following is a summary of bloom date data. It now covers 20 years for the early blooming species. I present it, less H dumortieri which is still just budding.

Note in all of the above we have a well characterized negative slope. H minor and H middendorfii we have for 20 years. There is a marked change in bloom date with some scatter.

The chart below depicts all three and shows the aggregate slopes. It has been especially marked over the past 10 years.

H minor Blooms

May 5, 2012 08:00

H minor bloomed today.

H minor note the lemon yellow, also not the slight tint of brownish on the back of the sepal. This was an old H minor I have had for decades. It has few blossoms, and I have been carefully propagating it. It is grass like in leaves and roots. There is no pollen today I guess because of the weather, no sun yet.

H middendorfii Blooms

April 30, 2012 08:00

H middendorfii bloomed today. They are all in full bud and this is a very early bloom.

H middendorfii Note the golden yellow as compared to the lemon yellow of H flava. Also not the sessile buds clumped about the scape end.

Species Bloom

April 28, 2012 08:00

The first species has bloomed, an Olallie H flava, a bright lemon yellow.

	H flava   Note the bright lemon yellow color. I have an Apps H flava also which blooms much later. This Olallie has short scapes, 4-6" and seems to have many buds.
	H flava buds
	H middendorfii bud Note this is a well formed bud, it came before flava and after Elfin.
	H dumortierii Note the reddish color, this will be preserved on the sepals exterior.
	H minor bud
	H minor bud

Blooms Have Begun

April 24, 2012 08:00

I have gotten the first bloom.

Elfin This is a very early Stout, and it is 2 weeks earlier than last year and a week earlier than usual. Middendorfii are in bud and due in a week or two.

Hybrid Seeds are In

January 16, 2012 08:00

I have also calculated the seed distribution for the past three years as shown below:

This is interesting in that we average about 8-10 seeds per pod. But the variance is quite large.

Hybrid Seeds are In

January 15, 2012 20:00

The following data are related to the past hybridizing. First we present details on seed count by date for the past few years. Last year, 2011, was wet and cold, the wettest on record, and the hybridizing yield was low.

I present data from prior years to compare:

The above show that we have some great years and some bad ones. I have correlated this with the weather and will report later.

Now we also have the number of seeds per cross versus the cross number. In 2011 we had 325 crosses:

We show the data from prior years:

Part of the 2011 problem was weather and part was excess shade in certain areas. We are remedying this by removing trees.

Now we show see yield versus time to mature:

We also show the remainder years for comparison:

These three sets of curves demonstrate the type of data we have been examining. We shall present weather data later.

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