Re: CULT: Bloomout Revisited

In a message dated 6/21/00 12:42:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com writes:

<<  My question to you would be however, why wouldn't you endorse it - not the
 nicks but the root hormone?>>

I would not 'endorse' it because I have no personal knowledge of the efficacy 
of the procedure.

<<  I would think if that toward the middle to end of summer, the time the 
rhizome is supposed to come out of its semi-dormant period and begin its 
second root-growth cycle, that if you gently dig the soil out from the front 
and just underside of the rhizome and dusted it with some root hormone, and 
then replaced the soil you dug away, that you could possibly save it.>>

I would be more inclined to remove the apical shoot which controls 
development of increase, slice the rhizome into pieces, and bury those. This 
procedure is a standard recommendation in the propagation literature for all 
rhizomatous plants( per e.g. Creative Propagation, Thompson, Timber Press, 
1992). In removing the dominant shoot, the new increase is no longer 
surpressed, and also the rhizome is injured, both of which may tend to spur 
new growth, at least in a rhizome capable of it. You may wish to check the 
Archives for a piece from the Cornell Bulletin I posted some time back on 
this proceedure, and a good deal of other useful discussion along these 
lines. Use the search term 'partition,' or scan posts circa 4/21/98.
 
<< I do think I will try JIJ's suggestion on one of my next bloomouts, but 
will
 also try the above sometime - unless you feel it will result in disaster? >>

Disaster? I really have no idea. But you may wish to consider the fact that 
used inappropriately rooting hormone can have the opposite effect than what 
you seek. 

Anner, in Virginia
ChatOWhitehall@aol.com 

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