Re: Transporting show stalks
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Transporting show stalks
- From: "* R* S* <j*@vetmed.wsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:27:59 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, John I Jones wrote:
> J. Irwin wrote:
> >
> > I am in need of the sage advice of other irisarians who have had to transport
> > show stalks a fair distance. Last year was the first year I had ever entered
> > a show and tried transporting stalks propped with foam in wine bottles 1/4
> > filled with water. Quite a few were damaged in transport although I ended up
> > winning Queen of Show with a stalk of Sterling Stitch that managed to come
> > through unscathed!
>
> Julie
> Your wine bottle solution sounds interesting. Not knowing what the problem was, it is difficult to design
> some solutions. Stems break? Falls get knocked off? Complete flower broken? One of the problems with a wine
> bottle is that since the botton end of the stalk is not held fast, the neck provides a nice pivot point for
> the stalk to move about.
>
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>
> John | "There be dragons here"
> | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> | to indicate the edge of the known world.
>
The wire stabilizer sounds great. Also, try a cotton stopper in
the neck of the bottle to help stabilize the stalk.
No one mentioned the added benefit of drinking the wine to empty
the bottles. I'll vonlunteer.
Jim
