Re: CULT: Scorch
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Scorch
- From: "* M* C* o* B* S* <s*@aristotle.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:26:46 -0600 (MDT)
> Just exactly what is "Scorch", what does it
>look like (how do you identify it) and how do you treat it?
Glenn, I'm not sure what the heck scorch is, but I know what it looks like.
Your TB fans start to turn reddish brown and die back from the tips. This
can happen overnight or over the course of a few days. Bloomstalks are
stunted. Although the bases of the fans and the rhizome look healthy and
firm externally, when you start cutting back the dead fans and tugging away
others in your increasing frustration, you find that the innermost fan is a
withered, wet, caramel-colored glop. Dig up the rhizome and you'll notice
that roots are rotting.
All this time the rhizome looks firm and healthy!
I'm told that some people trim the bad fans and roots, soak the rhizome in
dilute bleach solution, bleach the soil, and then dip the rhizome in
Rootone and replant. In three years or so, they'll have normal bloom again.
In my case, I have enough other rhizomes I'm going to pitch the infected
fellows.
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
