CULT:Scorch
- Subject: CULT:Scorch
- From: K*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 06:53:46 EST
In a message dated 3/31/2002 8:14:01 PM Central Standard Time,
donald@eastland.net writes:
<< By the time it is visible, there has not been anything that
is really worthwhile trying to salvage a plant. >>
I saw 3 victims of scorch in my garden at Alvaton (over 1/2 acre). First
time I had 2 plants in the same bed but on opposite sides. I didn't know
what it was at the time and lost both plants. The entire clump turned yellow
and withered, but I didn't see any indication of spreading.
The next time I saw scorch was about 3 years later in a seedling bed several
hundred feet from the first one and up hill. This time I cut loose the
infected rhizome and removed it. I believe I removed the soil, too. The
entire clump seemed stunted for a while, but recovered. I can't say this
would work every time, since I've had no call to test it again. If what I had
was scorch, it doesn't seem to spread through aphids.
What my irises had seemed to fit the description of scorch in literature and
the minds of other irisarians. I did NOT have it tested at the local county
agents, although I did take in a rhizome. He told me to dig the whole clump
and bring it in the next time & they would send it off. Since he did not
test it he could not give me a definitive answer.
Betty Wilkerson from Southcentral KY . . . Zone 6 . . . sometimes.
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