Re: Transporting blooms
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- Subject: Re: Transporting blooms
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:54:37 -0600 (MDT)
> Take a plastic 5 gallon bucket. Wet old newspapers, lay open a stack
> about 1/4 inch thick. Fold longwise to make a retangular strip about 6
> inches wide and about 30 inches long. Now roll into a cylinder. Stand
> this cylinder upright into the bottom of the plastic bucket. Continue
> making these cylinders until the bucket is full of wet paper cylinders
> standing up in the base of the bucket. Add about 2 inches of water to
> the bucket and now stand the iris stems in the bucket between the
> cracks in the rolled newspaper cylinders. A perfect way to transport
> tall iris without damage. Hope you can understand this. It's much
> easier to "show" than to "tell".
We use a variant of this method. Instead of newspapers we use the foam
cylinders made to insulate water pipes for the winter. They can be used
again and again. Stuff your bucket with these and put the iris in the
holes. Works great.
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76"
of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
