Re: CULT: clorox soak

--- In iris-talk@y..., "sdkeller" <sdkeller@f...> wrote:
"...when you are dividing, do you just leave the divisions that still 
have green seedpods sitting there in the row and dig the others 
around them...?"

Sally, this is a very good question and one I also will be interested 
to read the responses.

Let me share some of my own experience--I divide most of my iris 
annually within a few weeks after bloom and line out the increase (or 
give it away).  Seed pods with the parent rhizome attached are lifted 
too, and set into the line-out row, somewhat deeper than usual to 
prevent tipping over.  Very hot weather this year caused some of the 
reset pods to wilt a bit--but the seeds look fine as I harvest.

Two years ago a stalk broke when the pod was half grown, leaving only 
a whisker of the stalk attached.  I braced the stalk, now laying on 
the ground, in place and let it develop if it would.  It did, and the 
seeds were tiny, but healthy otherwise, and germinated as well as 
others.  The seedlings eventually caught up and there was bloom on 
them this year.

When a stalk has broken off after the pod is good size I have taken 
to poking it deep into the ground.  The pod may suffer, but continues 
to live and make seed.  There is a reservoir of energy and nutrients 
in the stem and pod itself that will make seed if it can.  It usually 
does.

Neil Mogensen  zone 6b/7a near Asheville, NC


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