Re: Re: CULT: ROT: Is it genetic?

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  From: wmoores 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 7:42 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: ROT: Is it genetic?




  On 9 Aug 2002 at 5:13, Sandra Barss wrote:

  > For what it is worth, based on my limited experiences.  The irises
  > that have thin narrow leaves, like Immortality and Pagan Dance in my
  > garden don't rot.
  > 
  > Sandra
  > 

  Narrow leaves often times indicate in-breeding (line-breeding).  If
  I hear they have narrow foliage, I don't buy them.

  Here a cultivar with narrow, skimpy leaves is not apt to bloom or
  have a long life in my garden.  It dies or I chunk it.

  Other narrow foliage irises will overgrow into a grassy type clump, 
  producing many stalks of less than a foot high.  Rhizomes are 
  generally tiny.

  I don't think a narrow foliage iris is good as a parent.  I would not
  want to pass on the above, undesirable traits.

  I try to avoid these, but it is hard to know since narrow foliage is not 
  mentioned in the R & I.  

  Walter Moores
  Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8




   When I got Hot Chocolate several years ago it had wide normal sized leaves. The next year the leaves are 1/2" wide and about 10" long. It increases fine and blooms on very short stalks. 

  This has been going on for several years. It is bad for leaf spot but has never had rot.This is the only iris that has ever done this. I moved it this year. If it doesn't do any better it is gone.

  This is the first year  I have had any rot to speak of. Rain with 95 degree weather. Lost of rain this spring and early summer.

  Mike Greenfield
  Zone 5b SW Ohio
  redear@infinet.com
  http://www.geocities.com/mikeg1310/




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