Re: cult:Cutting Fans
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- Subject: Re: cult:Cutting Fans
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:33:12 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Bill Shear wrote:
>
> You can rapidly increase Louisiana irises by splitting old rhizomes down
> the center, dusting them with a fungicide, and burying them. A whole row
> of new little plants will appear within a month, and with good culture can
> be grown to blooming size in one year. Has anybody tried this with TBs?
> How do commercial growers get maximum increase on prospective new
> introductions?
>
> Bill Shear
You don't have to split La's to get fast increase. You can dig
them, place them in shallow tubs of water in the shade, and watch them
have babies!
I tubbed some when a West Coast commercial source sent me La's
in July when the temp. was over 100. They could not have survived out in
the broiling sun if they had been planted. I was amazed at the increase
they made in the shallow tub water and without nutrients having been added
to the water.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
