Re: CULT: Propagation by Partition of Rhizome--for Sharon

Rick wrote:

<< We here at Superstition just plant mother rhizomes that have buds
(increases) showing, either in pots or directly in a nursery bed.  Here  in
California these increases will grow to maturity by the next shipping  season,
with some even blooming.  >>

Yes, under superb growing conditions it is really unnecessary to go to such
extremes to stimulate development of increase when just growing them
thoughtfully and well will encourage the mother plant to increase at optimum
levels. 

I think the only potential use for the method that I see is for a spent
rhizome that is not increasing, in which case stimulus may produce some
results and there is nothing to loose, really, or, and here is the real source
of interest for me, as a means of producing increase in rare historics which
may be slow to increase naturally but will respond to a cold frame
environment. I had a rare rhizome given to me at Thanksgiving one year--here
in zone 7 when there had been no light on the iris bed for a month--and I did
not know what to do with it so I potted it and put it into the little jerry-
rigged coldframe--pvc and remay and plastic. In the Spring I had occasion to
see both it and its mom and I can tell you that rhizome loved that coldframe!
I did not, however, slice it up first. 

Anner Whitehead, Richmond,VA
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