Mushy Green Sprouts...Ugh!

This past year was my first for actually planting and taking care of 
a bunch of real bearded iris that weren't purchased from Walmarts or 
donated from an old garden nearby!.
Anyhow, in the "mountainous" north Jersey climate, we were snow 
covered for the whole winter..A few weeks ago, the snow finally 
melted off the iris beds. About 90% of the iris look OK, I guess...  
green firm sprouts with firm rhizomes...but a few had mushy dead 
yellowed sprouts..the consistency what you might expect if you threw 
a fresh spinach leaf in the freezer then thawed it out. But the 
rhizomes are very firm, plump and not definitely not dead looking.
I have read about rhizome rot here...but sprout rot?? It doesn't 
attack just certain cultivars, as I have 2's of some, one mushy and 
yellow , the other OK.
Does anyone have experience with this?
Any way to prevent it?
And... most importantly... seeing the rhizome is not dead, should it 
put up another sprout?
thanks,
Laetitia


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