Re: TB: pregnant fans!?


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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