Re: CULT: Fallen buds
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: CULT: Fallen buds
- From: L* R* <l*@loc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 07:20:33 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 Rima wrote:
>
> I guess no one has had the problem of rot just below the bud to make it
> keel over still attached to the stalk. Just two so far. The rest are
> fine.
>
> Inspired by the latest drawing, here's mine:
>
>
> bud
> <<<<--- rot spot
> |
> | stalk
> |
>
> does this look familiar to anyone? :-)
> rima terra@catskill.net
> upstate NY zone 4
Rima--I think I'm up-to-date on my reading for once, and I don't recall
anyone answering your question. In my experience, this is usually caused
by frost damage. Usually a late frost as the bloom stalk is getting ready
to emerge. Some varieties show damage and others don't. I had quite a
bit of this this year. Even in the same clump, some stalks did this and
some didn't. I guess this depends on their frost tolerance and what stage
of development the bud was in when hit by frost.
Lois Rose, in Central Virginia (Partlow, to be exact)
25 mi. SW of Fredericksburg in southern Spotsylvania County
on a little hill overlooking my murkey farm pond in the middle of 50 acres
USDA Zone 7; peak TB bloom May 15
LAs at peak; JIs in bud
