CULT: Drying rhizomes
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- Subject: CULT: Drying rhizomes
- From: v* l*
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:28:31 -0700 (PDT)
--- Patrick Orr <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com> wrote:
... people have been talking about
> storing the rhizomes in a cool dry shady place for a week
> or so to allow them to dry out. Well, I have many times
> stored irises up to two months indoors prior to planting
> and have had bloom from them the first year without a
> problem. Sure there is some loss of moisture during that
> time, and many of the leaves may dry up, but when planted
> in the ground, they take off real well.
>
> Patrick Orr
> Phoenix AZ Zone 9
> USA
>
V. sez:
The original question came from someone in the
Northeast, though, where the temperature is lower and the
summer shorter. Two months out of the ground puts you into
the middle of September, which gives the rhizomes only
about a month before frost to get established. My survival
rate for irises planted in September is greatly reduced,
even if they haven't been out of the ground. First year
bloom is also way down on those that do survive.
'Course, the idea may be to torture them so that they
are so grateful when put into the ground that they grow by
leaps and bounds...
Vince Lewonski
Zone 6
Secane, PA, where he is jealous of Patrick's climate in
winter, but not in summer when it is 110...
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