Re: CAT: Quality (was Another Order IN!!)

I would like to know how they " Water fatten a rhizome" I live in Ohio not California. If I give an iris plenty of room and good growing conditions it gets big. If they are crowded they will be small. I have had SDB rhizomes a lot bigger than the average TB I have ordered. Those only come on ones planted last year. The second year they will be a lot smaller. I think those big ones come from growers that dig and replant every year. Like Superstion Gardens.

I think if they watered enough to "fatten" them they would increase there chances of rot.
I like the big ones when they have plenty of increases on them. The small ones I have grown and bloomed just as good as the big ones, just less increases.

Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b SW Ohio
redear@infinet.com
http://www.geocities.com/mikeg1310/
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Catherine Button 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT: Quality (was Another Order IN!!)


  Sterling (not Innerst),

  It is hard for me to remember every detail, but many of the fat, plump, iris 
  rhizomes I have occassionally received did worse for me than the average size 
  guys. Some discussions on the list suggest that maybe some of the big boys 
  have been water fattened. Anyway, to get to your question, I have never 
  received a misnamed iris from Aitken and I have had some large orders. Most 
  of them I would say are average size, not big, but always very healthy 
  looking. My past orders have beeen mixed with way more medians and beardless 
  than tbs... and he certainly has been generous!

  cathy

  > Has Aitken's been pretty
  > good about their rhizome quality lately?
  > 
  > Sterling (not Innerst)

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