Re: TB: pregnant fans!?
- Subject: Re: [iris] TB: pregnant fans!?
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:26:30 -0600
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You most certainly can tell the difference between a bloomstalk and a borer by 'sight'
or 'touch' simply because borers don't exist in this part of the iris world. No
'ultrascan' needed because our heat is too intense for a borer to survive. I worked in
my aril bed yesterday and saw the 'pregnant' fans first before confirming my
suspicion by touching them.
In over forty years with iris, I have never seen a borer, but I did receive a rhizome
once that had been hollowed out by one. Guess he escaped through one of the vent
holes in the box when he hit the VA/NC border because the heat was stifling in the
UPS truck. You could definitely see where the critter had been, and I don't think the
excavation in the rhizome and fan could be a flower bud.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
On 18 Mar 2003 at 20:27, John Jones wrote:
> Linda Mann wrote:
>
> >It's too early even for SDBs here, but one of my 3 yr old TB seedlings
> >has several fans that "feel" pregnant at the base.
> >
> So, can you tell the difference between a bloomstalk and a borer working
> its way down the fan?
>
> John | "There be dragons here"
> | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> | to indicate the edge of the known world.
>
> List owner iris@hort.net and iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
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