Re: CULT: iris rot
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- Subject: Re: CULT: iris rot
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:39:39 -0700 (MST)
>Today I spent some time cutting rotting fans out of my irises. As all you
>Americans east of the Rocky Mountains remember, several weeks ago we had
>a horrible week-long freeze. And that really did a number on my irises.
>The center leaves in the fans rotted away and the rot travelled down to
>the rhyzome so I had to cut them out.
>
>On some fans, the rot had not travelled down very far. Is there a chance
>that those fans could still bloom this year???
>
>I applied bleach to all the fresh cut rhyzomes.
>
>
>Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
>Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
>Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RBIS, SIGNA, & Miami Valley Iris Society
>Primary Interests: Hybridizing Arilbreds, Raising Native Ohio Species Irises
Dear Dennis: Sorry you are having such a bad time of it with rot. We had
four nights of freezing, down to 20 F the last night. Mine have recovered
without any difficulty, and some are back in bloom. I did cover the stalks
with open blooms with buckets and such, but no extra cloths. I BLESS is
back open, with no sign of frost damage in the blooms. But it did take
nearly two weeks. Lloyd Z in Durham NC
