Re: Declining vigor
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Declining vigor
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:02:16 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Amy Rupp wrote:
> > inherent in the cultivar, or is it due to garden conditions? Some
> > cultivars, as we all know, simply die or rot immediately, an indication that
> > they do not like their new home. But why do some do well the firs year and
> > then die or rot?
>
> It's because the energy and bloom created in their beautiful Pacific
> home arrives in Tennessee with the rhizome. It's the NEXT year that
> it's got to try to build up energy reserves and form bloom for the
> following season. That's why it's important not to remove foliage after
> bloom so that the bulb/rhizome can make/store energy for next year
> through photosynthesis. Amy Moseley Rupp amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX,
zone 8b
Would it be helpful (to the irises) to put on alfalfa pellets. Are
these known to help stop this loss of vigour?
--
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
