Re: CULT: Rot - retention/persistence in soil?
- Subject: Re: CULT: Rot - retention/persistence in soil?
- From: L* M*
- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:49:05 -0400
Don't give up on getting replies Bill - sometimes it takes a week or a
month or 6 months <g> I'm still waiting to hear details on fresh seed
germination techniques - hopefully before my seeds are no longer fresh.
<Thanks for the response. It is the only one that I have received.
Maybe the subject has been covered in the past and people don't want to
be bothered answering it again or maybe I just need to have rot on a
*cat* instead of irises to get responses... ;-) Bill Wells>
My understanding is that the rot organisms are ubiquitous (love that
word!) and while they can definitely kill a plant, they seem to be
opportunistic, taking advantage of injury/stress from whatever (drought,
suffocation by water, freeze injury, all kinds of mechanical
injury,..). I've not treated for rot because I only want the tougher
cultivars that are resistant to it, & in my experience, tough cultivars
will usually grow out of it. However, others have posted that recovery
is much faster with treatment.
So, your options are do nothing, do a lot, or pick somewhere in
between. The only thing I would possibly to about replanting in the
same spot is to make sure that growing conditions in that exact location
are as close to optimal as you can make them.
Speaking of rot, wasn't the scorch research article in the last AIS
bulletin fascinating? Explains why I thought "scorch" was nothing
fancier than late spring freeze damage.
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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