Re: Re: Quality Standards
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  • From: "r*@clas.net" <r*@minesmo.org>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:23:00 -0500
 

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Hi Betty/all - On their arrival I did not, I hoped that I would be able to plant and get them to survive.  I know some times the best of us have garden problems.  I felt that maybe this person was doing the best to fill orders they had recieved, I appreciate that.  But, there comes a time when anyone should be able to see they are not meeting the needs of customers when they are sending inferior quality items.  I have contacted the garden mine came from-am waiting for a response.
I think the worst part is the anticipation of growing something wonderful and new, being willing to pay high dollar amount for the priviledge, and recieving something that will be at best difficult to sustain and 2 years at best to see the flower.  And, then as does sometimes happen, the risk of finding you did not recieve the variety you ordered. 
 
I would never put that person's name out here because this may have been very isolated events, perhaps this was a bad growing year for several big gardens, I do not know.  My point only being that growers/sellers-I feel- should be very aware of what the purchaser anticipates when paying more than $40-$50 for a rhizome.  
 
Having read some of the other posts since this one-I have problem with a smaller rhizome if it does indeed have increase present, but a small, dry rhizome arriving in early August with 3-5 small leaves and one tiny increase (wish I had a photo-but go back to Loic's posted photo) would have difficulty surviving in any garden in Missouri at that time. 
Rose Kinnard
Fredericktown, Mo
Zone 6 
 
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Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: Quality Standards

 

Rose, did you email or call to state your displeasure? 

<<2010 introductions costing more than $40 each should not look like that in my opinion>>
There's always a chance it's the same grower.  According to the pictures Loic sent the rihizomes were dug to small and then left to lie somewhere for quite some time before they were shipped.  (just my observation based on the pictures)
 
 
 
Betty W.
KY zone 6

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From: rkinnard@clas.net <rkinnard@minesmo.org>
To: iris-photos <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Sep 24, 2010 10:28 pm
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: Quality Standards

 
Loic-
 I agree with you, I recieved the same kind of rhizomes this summer - paid a quite significant price for new introductions that arrived the size of my small finger and thumb.  I was very disappointed to recieve such small, fragile starts for the amount of money invested.  To date 2 of them have fully dried up without any attempt to set root or foliage.
They were planted with care and given extra attention but failed to even attempt to grow.  I was/am greatly disappointed that a professional grower would send out such stock-I would have preferred to be told they were not available.  I should have sent them back, but felt that would surely be the death of them.  My order was for about 15 different varieties and I suppose I should be pleased that only 2 of the small things have died.
It does make one wonder about how the quality vs quantity standards of some growers are determined.  And, my rhizomes did not have to travel more than 4 days-they were small, dry, with browning foliage when they arrived-leaving me to believe they were in this condition when they were dug for shipping, or were dug way to long before shipping time.  2010 introductions costing more than $40 each should not look like that in my opinion.
 
Rose Kinnard
 
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: Quality Standards

 
Linda, i totally agree with you, rhizomes that weight 250 grams are bound to be full of water, and have very high chances to rot  here too.
The decent size of 100 grams is what i am after, with A very dense structure, hard to cut with the knife.
 
But the pictures i have put on iris-photo show irises between 5g and 30g;
They can't go in the garden yet or they would be lost,  they have to be potted and spend  a year in the place in the garden i call the kindergarten, and sometimes the hospital.... where 'potatoes' (used up rhizomes) are kept for extra shoots, and fragile irises that start to rot are kept under scrutiny after cutting and bleaching.
 
It is not the place i want to see the newly arrived irises ordered from professionals.
 
LoÃc
 
 
 

 
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