Re: CULT: weather and Botrytis
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- Subject: Re: CULT: weather and Botrytis
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:52:01 -0700 (MST)
Hi Barb!
You write:
> John's comments on Botrytis rot in Utah (I'd add to the thread, but I
lost
> it) are making me a bit nervous. The conditions here today sound
awfully
> like his mud on top of frozen ground with the temps in the 30s and 40s.
> These are conditions I haven't seen since the winter of '94, and I wasn't
> paying enough attention then to what survived it. (clip)
> and with 50-degree weather today, they are blithely putting out little
> serrated green edges. They'll be sorry. At least the irises still look
> more or less dormant, and I sure hope all this cold wet ground isn't
going
> to do them in.
It was Jeff (after whom no form of accomodation is named), and not John who
made those comments. I do not wish to sound alarmist, but last year,
instead of our usual one partial thaw during the winter we had three
thorough ones, and the Botrytis problem was the worst it had been in years.
Botrytis flourishes only in cool weather, however. Temperatures above 50
seem to shut it down pretty well.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
