Re: CULT: soaking TBs

From: dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Chris Hollinshead wrote:

> Currently one sink in my kitchen is full of soaking bearded iris rhizomes...
> all obtained from very reputable sources too... but they were just victims
> of procrastination...
> Good thing they didn't get cooked for dinner last night!
> It now has become a wintertime challenge to bring them back from near
> oblivion...
Chris, Do you soak your TBs in 10% bleach? Nobody mentoned this when
talking about processing dried out end of season irises in plastic bags.
Did you buy those or are yours from some reputable nursery? They need
lots of rinsing afterwards but that's OK.

-- 
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
cold edge of Zone 4 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada 
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.

URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html


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