Re: Re: CULT: stress related diseases

Perhaps my iris are hardier than the ones you're growing further south.
They often get hit by a hard frost after starting growth, and rarely die of
it or get any diseases, including rot, even after about 4 feet of rain from
May to Aug last year.  They were all bought in Canada, so my 2 suppliers had
already ensured that they would survive here in this cold zone, although
Ontario and British Columbia are at least 2 zones warmer.

I stressed them immensely in July '99, when I had to move in a heck of a
hurry, plus build both my nursery beds and landscape beds before I could
plant them.  I hate to tell you that most of them were in my unheated,
uncooled shed for over a month, in plastic bags, no less.  I only lost one
out of a few hundred, but had a 2nd one in a different location here.  I
knew they could take the abuse, whereas some of my more tender perennials
could not.

El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba Z3

-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: stress related diseases


>Last year we had a bout with scorch.  I am pretty
>firmly convinced that the susceptibility for scorch is
>stress related.  The iris that were affected were
>pretty much confined to one area and there is no
>evidence of it this year, at least not amongst the
>ones that lived<G>  These iris were all beautiful in
>the early spring, then we had a short sharp freeze and
>boom, we had scorch cropping up here and there.


 

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