Re: CULT: Suberization
- Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: Suberization
- From: "wmoores" w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:20:15 -0600
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Jim and others, thanks.
This sounds more like it. The article says the rhizomes were not
planted for two weeks, so suberization is really more than what the
dictionary says. I hadn't thought of the 'new skin or hide' as being
corky though as the dictionary says. Basically, it appears to be a
healing process. We 'suberize' all of the time without thinking
about the proper word!
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
On 1 Dec 2002 at 12:41, Jim Gibbons wrote:
> 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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