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Re: Re: CULT Solarization & manure

From: "sidneygardener" <sidneygardener@email.msn.com>

RosalieAnn,
 
Do you think the heat of water damages the outer covering of the rhizome allowing bacteria to enter?
 
Cindy Rivera
President of the Albuquerque Iris Guild
Albuquerque, NM, Zone 6/7
SIGNA, HIPS, TBIS,ASI,  AIS,AIG, NMIS, AAS
-----Original Message-----
From: G*@aol.com <G*@aol.com>
To: i*@onelist.com <i*@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT Solarization & manure

>From: G*@aol.com
>
>In a message dated 01/26/2000 9:00:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>d*@llano.net writes:
>
>>  This would be a classic example of the humiditure rule.  When your
>humidity +
>>  your temperatures meet or exceed 150 you are in the danger zone for rot. 
>At
>>  least this is what I have been told by several noted irisarians.
>> 
>
>Humiture is an inexact attempt to quantify times when sweating is an
>ineffective way for humans (and other mammals that sweat) to reduce their
>core temperature.  What is really important is the partial pressure of water
>on the skin.  The reason the humiture measure is ineffective is because the
>warmer air gets the more water it can hold.  So the partial pressure of water
>on the skin (either promoting cooling by evaporation of sweat, or not) can
>stay the same, and the relative humidity will go up and down depending on the
>temperature.
>
>You can apply it, and the wind chill factor to iris if you want to, but those
>measures, however flawed, were not developed for plants.
>
>>  sidneygardener wrote:
>> 
>>  > In Albuquerque the only time I get rot is if I water too much in the
>> summer
>>  > and the temperature kicks up.
>
>Since I conceive that Albuquerque is probably very dry (??), this method of
>promoting rot is probably more due to the high temperature of the water
>droplets on the ground  than to the humiture.  Or if it is due to humiture,
>it is an extremely localized phenomena - like within 2 inches of the plant. 
>IMHO  and YMMV.
>
>RosalieAnn the soon to be retired industrial hygienist south of Baltimore.
>
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