Re: CULT: Suberization
- Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: Suberization
- From: "Jim Gibbons" g*@mchsi.com
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:41:26 -0500
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Walter,
From what I remember, the process of letting the cut sides of seed potatoes
dry out and cure was known as suberization.
Jim Gibbons
NC Coast Zone 8A and sandy...
gibbman6@mchsi.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: [iris] CULT: Suberization
> I have been reading a report on an 'iris study,' and the use of the
> term suberization is scattered throughout the report. The author
> assumes the reader knows what the term means in relation to
> irises. It is never defined.
>
> The term is not in TWOI. I searched in Mallorn and found no
> reference. From the context of the report, it appears to me to refer
> to the time rhizomes have been out of the ground before planting
> - a curing process. Anyone know for sure?
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
>
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