notes and all that rot
- Subject: notes and all that rot
- From: W*@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 09:10:36 MST
I've been pleasantly surprised here with so many iris notes that I can't
keep up with my job and them both. I still haven't finished Tom's first
assignment of picking favorite TB selfs in each color! Pretty soon these
things will start blooming, and then we'll all be completely done for.
On rot, I think many of us have had the feeling that some varieties are
more susceptible than others to rot, and Linda with her list has done a
good thing in getting us to think about that. I have a sort of list too,
which has some experiences that correlate with hers but has some differences.
It's of course limited by a small sample size of each variety, little
differences of culture related to where the fertilizer may have gotten a
little closer to the rhizome or where the soil tended to be a little wetter,
where the rhizome was growing before, how I planted it this time,
the weather that we had during a particular year, etc. Maybe if a lot of
us were able to pool such information, we might be able to reach some valid
conclusions.
As far as hybridizers, we are safe in assuming that nobody breeds for rot,
but probably some growing conditions provide a better selection for it than
others. And, apart from that, some growers have had some heartbreaking
outbreaks of disease, and they have been the first to recognize the problem.
Now I'll go back to going through the notes and doing my assignment.
--Jim
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Jim Wilson, Miami Valley Iris Society, SW Ohio, zone 6a, AIS garden judge,
growing TBs, medians, Siberians, JI, a few SPU and species
