Re: Re: CULT: strange storage
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Re: CULT: strange storage
  • From: B* W* <a*@aol.com>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:48:50 -0500 (EST)
Sure thing.  Let us know how it works!


<<Thanks for the idea, Betty.  ;-)>>


Betty W




-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Feb 13, 2011 8:35 am
Subject: [iris] Re: CULT: strange storage


At the risk of stirring a dead horse back to life by beating on it, I
ost nearly all the rhizomes I ordered from a CA source year before
ast.  Some of the increases survived, but nearly all the mother
hizomes froze and split.  Sappy rhizome syndrome, an oft repeated
myth'.  As soon as they arrived, I thought uh oh, too much tender
issue in the huge, rapidly grown rhizomes.  The kind of rhizomes that a
ot of people really like, but don't usually produce spring bloom here
nd often don't live long past that first spring.
If I order from that source again (and I think I will), I think I may
ry the technique you found, Betty.  I was thinking about bringing them
ndoors for the winter, but that can be really hard on big plants here.
 Or ordering as early as possible, then letting them dry out of the
round until fall.
But if they will bloom in spring after spending the winter in a cool
iry place in paper bags with a little peat moss to keep them from
rying out too much, I may try ordering for late arrival (Aug) and just
eeping them in a cool place in bags till March. then pot them up and
eep them under covers during the last late freezes here.
Thanks for the idea, Betty.  ;-)
Linda Mann east TN USA zone 7
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