Re: CAT: Quality (was Another Order IN!!)
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT: Quality (was Another Order IN!!)
- From: C* B*
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:17:09 -0400
It wasn't my discussion, I was just recalling that it was mentioned here...
so you may want to check the archives for what was really said. Basically, as
well as I can mis-remember, after iris are done blooming and about 2 weeks
before being dug, they may be watered only if there isn't enough natural
rainfall - not a lot or anywhere near enough to cause problems - just some
average watering to allow them to better withstand the digging and sitting
around in the mail... then, they get mailed, and planted someplace that
doesn't see half the rainfall of where they came from!
> 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
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