Re: CULT: moisture content (was Pot or don't pot)

From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>

	Walter Moores wrote in part:

>	And, now, on to the moisture content in those West Coast
>rhizomes.........did it come from there or is it sweat when those boxes
>hit the humid South and East?  Are we perpetuating an old wives tale our
>foreirisfathers taught us by drying them out for weeks?

	This is the first time that I have almost 200 bearded iris
	rhizomes literally spread all over 2 houses (don't ask) on
	newspapers for 3 - 4 weeks. I usually give them 10 days to
	sit before planting. Anyway, I was chagrined to discover only
	the rhizomes from Aitken and Keppel were 'weeping' - they were
	on an old table in a dry basement. Some of these were *new*
	intros and I gallantly moved the table with the rhizomes through
	a door to another room where there is a dehumidifier.

	The ones from Superstition and also from the Craigs are just fine.
	So, West Coast can be a misnomer.

	Of course, the ones from other parts of the country are also looking
	good and that includes Walter Moores' irises. :)

	Of course, the nonsense with the beardless irises far outweighs the
	bearded - I have all of them soaking in pails with the water changed
	every blasted day - this week-end, we plant, the iris-god willing.

	Happy to have my old 'moose' address back - so descriptive :)).

	Ellen

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Ellen Gallagher  / e_galla@moose.ncia.net
Siberian iris robin   /   sibrob@ncia.net
Northern New Hampshire, USA / USDA Zone 3
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