Re: Re: CULT: Resistance is futile....
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Resistance is futile....
- From: D* E*
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:48:52 -0600
Linda's description of frost/freeze damage and it's results:
>
>Plus, it's way too early to tell whether or not bloom of that <frost
>tolerant> individual will be affected. The first clue will be a
>withering or stalled growth of the terminal fan, which will eventually
>rot. Some will get past that, look normal, but the bloom stalk will
>shrivel inside the fan or maybe develop a bit more, then rot out. Some
>will get past that, but the stalk will be severely stunted, with blooms
>on stalks that can be as short as 3 or 4 inches tall.
is very good. Some of my current crop of stalks are going to push above the
foliage, some are not, and some have clearly stalled in the fan. I have
been watching the stalled ones closely. If they begin to droop some, they
may come out with a gentle tug and what you find is....rot, of course. So
I've been trying to remove those ASAP and treat with COMET or AJAX or bleach
and hope the sun, wind and dry air take care of it after that. So far I
have found only six cases of rot from that type; otherwise there have been
only three cases involving the whole plant and at least one of those (a
small plant) was gone before there was any chance of taking any sort of
remedial action. Rather than actually being killed by the freeze, the
plants are susceptable after the freeze. I generally don't have big
problems with rot because of our generally dry weather with low humidity (I
think). The damage to plants this year is easily the worst I've
experienced. They are simply have some trouble growing out of it this time.
I guess the freeze got a lot of incipient growth cells or whatever. I also
wonder if the early and early-mid season blooms that do manage to bloom will
be typical. That, of course, is especially pertinant to seedlings that I
haven't yet seen bloom. Or, to a lesser degree, 2nd year seedlings I'd like
to compare to maiden bloom. I do wish more normal foliage was appearing
than there is at this point, no matter about the bloom.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
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