Re: How Much Cold
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: How Much Cold
- From: S*@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 21:24:41 -0500 (EST)
My first thought on your problem of disfigured flowers and one bud completely
shrivelled and dry is -- ta da! BORER!! Might be something else, but
that sounds like what happens to me when I turn my back on the TB's and the
show is in a few days!! Do you know how to determine if you have borer???
Boy, I want that red-- I hope you find out the name of it. It sounds just
great. I can look out from my deck at my iris in the afternoon sun and
that one would look llike the great illusive red iris. You know about that?
Maybe other folks would like to comment on red iris. You're right to call
it purple -- that's a hint.
Yes, this is a teaser. There is no red iris. It's a dream hybridizers and
scientists are constantly looking at.
You can tell if it's borer if you tear that bloom apart, or the bud and you'll
see it. You will also see it in the rhizome. You can find it's "sawdust" leav-ings near the base of the stalk where it climbs into the rhizome from its
hibernation in the soil. It doesn't sound like you have rot if the only part
affected is the bloom. NOT TO WORRY! YOU can rescue the rhizome. Get inthere
and dig out the borer, he will be unmistakeable. stick him with a sharp piece
of wire and feed him to the birds. (MY robins adore me) (they watch me. It
is fun to put a couple of borer on the nearest rock and go inside and watch
mother feed borer to baby robin) But the rhizome will survivethis year if it's
dried out. You can replace it into the soil if it is dry or leave it out of
the soil to "cure" a little while, a day or so until it dries off, and put it
back in
AND REPLACE YOUR LABEL SO THAT YOU CAN TELL ME THE NAME OF THAT GORGEOUS THING!!
