Re: CULT: Hollow Rhizomes

Rusty - a few folks have suggested you might have iris borers, but that
seems highly unlikely in Texas.  It seems more likely the old mother (or
in this case, great great grandmother) rhizomes died of 'natural' causes
and got eaten by reglar ol soil microbes (and maybe macrobes).  In my
"plantings", neglected iris (abandoned 'cause the bloody things never
bloomed) often will keep increasing at the nose of the rhizome for
generations.  They look like they are taking the strategy of making a
bee line out of there.  Sometimes soft rot will also take out parts, but
not all, of the ancestral bits and pieces of rhizome as well.

As for what to do about it, like everybody says, dig, trim, divide,
solarize, excavate, move to Oregon... or try another kind.  But I would
think Cygon wouldn't be needed in Texas - you need to make SURE you have
borers before using that nasty stuff.

Here I am talking about an insect I have no experience with again. 
Apologies.

Linda Mann lmann@icx.net
east Tennessee USA
Immortality trying to bloom again in this heat and drought (she's been
getting a drink now and then - a special concession)
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