Re: CULT: Freeze damage
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: CULT: Freeze damage
- From: d*@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 19:06:53 -0700 (MST)
>At 15:01 29/03/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>you know...I keep hearing about how iris rot has a powerful smell
>>associated with it, but I didn't smell anything at all...just a lot of
>>gross brown slime. And I have a very keen sense of smell! My fritillaria
>>imperialis are budding and I can already smell them!
>>PPPHHHHYYYYEEEEWWWEEEY!!!
>>
>How could you NOT smell iris rot. It is just so distinctively yucky (both
>from the snmell point of view...... and from the point of view of what
>lovely plant is being ruined)
I don't know?! Maybe I'm calling it rot, but it's really something else?
It absolutely did not have any odor whatsoever. The leaves just turned all
brown and slimy and this "rot" sometimes was so advanced that it had travelled
down into the rhizome. This "rot" attacked about 20 of 60 rhizomes.
Or maybe my rot just don't stink. ;)
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RIS, SIGNA, & Miami Valley Iris Society
Primary Interests: Hybridizing Arilbreds, Raising Native Ohio Species Irises
