Re: Cult: Elongated Rhizomes
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Cult: Elongated Rhizomes
- From: B* J*
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:28:39 -0800 (PST)
I have also noticed this on rhizomes that are planted
under and around trees. I think the tree feeder roots
take all the nutrients and moisture from the soil and
force the rhizome to go forward (so to speak) for what
it needs.
Billie Lynn Jones
Grenada, MS
--- wmoores <wmoores@watervalley.net> wrote:
>
>
> >. In some cases these rhizomes can get a foot or
> more long
> > with no bloom and no increase and then for reasons
> unknown to me they will
> > make six to eight increases on each side of the
> rhizome. > >
> >
> elongate in a direction towards food or a softer
> soil. Clumps
> older than three years may show such rhizomes, too.
> Cemetery flags
> are like this, so I think the problem is with the
> type of soil and
> how long the clump has been established.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
>
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