Re: Re: CULT: clorox soak

Neil,

That is some great info on what to do with a broken stem with seed pod.  Thanks.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: neilm@charter.net 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 9:41 AM
  Subject: [iris-talk] 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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