Re: ROT!!!
Dennis writes
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> :I found this tip in the stacks of mail I receive. Any thoughts?
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> :TIP: To help prevent rot and to force the daughters (increases) to grow
> :you should cut the mother (rhizome) right down the middle after the
> :bloom stalk has dried.
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> Tom wrote:I would think that cutting the old rhizome and leaving it in the
> ground connected to the new ones would be an open invitation to rot,
> not a preventative!
Dennis replies: I think what was meant was if you are not going to
divide the clump. On the other hand, I have too much to do to go around
slicing mother rhizomes to get their daughters off the stick! I will
have to ask the gentleman who sent the tip.
Anybody else want to chime in on this one!!!
PS. Tom, you are doing a great job with this list. What a great group
of people, with a wealth of knowledge.
> regards, Dennisdrstone@roanoke.infi.net
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