Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- Subject: Re: HYB: dried up pod stalks
- From: a*
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:55:40 -0000
Linda; I think you are on track. I cleaned up the stalks and dead
leaves 2 weeks ago. There were many where the stalk had started to
rot and then, with absence of rain, dried out. I wound up with only
six pods (1/3 of crosses). Not a big business, just Pop because Mom's
not interested. I had two pod stalks rot at bottom. I cut stalk where
it was still green. Took in the house and have them sitting in water,
which I flush with fresh water every night.
The rain pattern has been weird. Feast or famine. I figure it's the
deluge that starts the rot and the dry spell dries it out. One bed
had bad leaf spot rot.
Al Bullock
Z7 No Va
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
> Most mysterious - maybe it is some form of rot that starts in wet
> weather, then when it turns hot and dry like it is now, dries up and
> becomes brown and brittle. ??. The pods are still green, if a bit
pale,
> so I'm assuming the seeds can still get nourishment from the pod and
> small amount of green stalk tissue attached. They aren't starting
to
> split yet.
>
>> Betty in KY said:
> <How is the pod to get nourishment if the stalk isn't alive? Just
meant
> I'd never had any dry up, turn completely brown, or collapse to the
> point of snapping or breaking, unless there is rot, of course. And
I'm
> thinking you mean spontaneous? Maybe I harvest quicker. I tend to
> harvest the pods when I first notice the pod start to split.>
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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