CULT: Scorch
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- Subject: CULT: Scorch
- From: "* M* C* o* B* S* <s*@aristotle.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:38:51 -0600 (MDT)
Are any other Southerners seeing a few cases of scorch in the TB patch? I
suppose it to be inevitable, given the ups and downs of this late,
unlamented winter. I have two cases among the 75 named cultivars in my TB
group, and there are another three, possibly four cases among the 300-plus
cultivars in our state display beds at the Capitol.
In my yard, I notice that one of my two affected cultivars, BUBBLING OVER,
was the worst-hit by leaf spot of all my plants a month ago. I trimmed the
spots and sprayed a little Daconil on it, and three weeks later, the
outermost rhizomes are being knocked down to the ground by scorch.
Do you think there's any connection between the two infestations - other
than just this cultivar's obviously being under important stress?
I'm distressed to report that the other scroching in my garden has been
visited upon little STEPPING OUT, which is the plant I've grown longest and
had the least trouble with over the last 11 or so years. Fortunately I have
many rhizomes of SO, and TWOI promises scroch is only mildly contagious;
still it's set me back a bit to see my old reliable friend going down.
Linda Mann, according to the archives you were rather concerned about
scorch a few years ago, have you learned anything more about it since?
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
