Re: HYB: CULT: pushing seedlings
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: CULT: pushing seedlings
- From: M* F*
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:14:24 -0500
Another problem with the alfalfa in containers is that when wet, it starts
to compost and becomes very hot. It works much better,used sparingly, as a
top dressing on large plantings or cultivated in several weeks before
planting a new bed such as Schreiners have done. (Bob Shreiner Article AIS
Bulletin as long ago as perhaps January 1995) In Moores experiment, the
probable reason the seedlings didn't cook and die was that the alfalfa was
below the roots and not touching...perhaps the heat prevented the roots from
growing into the alfalfa. Mary
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From: "wmoores" Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: CULT: pushing seedlings
On 18 Jul 01, at 12:27, Linda Mann wrote:
As an experiment this year $6 plastic window box type planter.
Filled it half way with alfalfa cubes (they were temporarily out of
pellets), then topped it off with a mix of creek sand, potting mix
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
Last year I tried an experiment with potting rhizomes. I filled
the pot half full with alfalfa bits. Then, I placed a soil mix on
top of that and pushed a rootless rhizome into the soil mix.
The rhizomes did not send out new leaves like they did in the pots without
the alfalfa base. They remained stunted for the two or three
months they were in the pots.
When I got ready to unpot the rises with the alfalfa base, I > found
that there wasn't very much of a root system. The roots went
to the pure alfalfa base but would not grow into it. I also found > out
that the alfalfa had soured and some pots had maggots working the sour
alfalfa.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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