Re: CULT: Bloomout Revisited




ChatOWhitehall@aol.com wrote:
> 

> 
> 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? >>
> 

Anner's suggestion above is essentially the same process/theory that I
excerpted from Bill shear.

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