Re: CULT: scorch, rot, and post freeze decline
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: CULT: scorch, rot, and post freeze decline
- From: d*@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:46:10 -0600 (MDT)
>Celia Storey wrote:
>> Linda Mann, according to the archives you were rather concerned about
>> scorch a few years ago, have you learned anything more about it since?
>
>As I was reading the post I was thinking about 'post freeze trauma rot'
>and Walter Moores tells me the post freeze rot he is seeing in
>Mississippi looks like scorch but isn't.
>
>In my garden, I don't know what organism it is and don't know if it's a
>pathogen, but it is definitely rot of plants injured by the freeze.
>This may be the main type of rot I have (I don't usually smell check all
>my rotting plants to see if it's the infamous soft rot), and if it isn't
>actually a pathogen, that would explain why mine are usually
>'self-curing'.
Okay, *THIS* is what I had. Apparently it's not scorch or soft rot.
So I don't know what it's name is, but I can vouch that the bleach
treatment works!
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
