Re: CULT: rot (was Iris myths)
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: CULT: rot (was Iris myths)
- From: l* M*
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:23:47 -0500
From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>
I wrote (somewhat tongue in cheek, since this is 'my' bandwagon):
> > Of course, I'm positive it's those late winter, early spring freezes and
> > high humidity/rainfall that so many modern cultivars just aren't exposed
> > to till they leave home...compost 'shouldn't' be a problem unless it
> > affects (worsens) drainage.
and Jeff Walters in Utah replied:>
> Don't blame just the modern cultivars for bring susceptible to rot. The
> recent thaw here has created ideal conditions for the proliferation of
> botrytis rot.
Yeah, but most guest irises at conventions, which is where this thread
started, aren't historic irises.
Way back somewhere in the early days of the list, somebody posted about
folks being able to recognize a bed of historics from the 50s? 30s?
(sorry, I forget which era) by the stench of rot. So I would have said
'so many cultivars' instead of 'so many modern cultivars' if we'd been
talking generalities.
> And who do I find are worst affected? NEGLECTA (1813), WABASH
> (1936), and KALEIDOSCOPE BROWN'S MUTANT ( 1967), a mutant of Kaleidoscope
> (1930), a mutant of Honorabile (1840).
That's BAD rot - or do they have problems in your environment all
years? Do you grow HONORABILE, and is it rotting? NEGLECTA did not do
well for me at all, and WABASH has its good and bad years (unrelated to
late freezes, near as I can tell). I haven't tried BROWN'S MUT - maybe
we need to do another swap?
Linda Mann east Tennessee USa
Snow tomorrow????
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