Re: CULT: iris rot
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- Subject: Re: CULT: iris rot
- From: D* F* <d*@cornell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 19:01:19 -0700 (MST)
At 03:34 PM 3/28/98 -0700, Dennis wrote:
>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.
I also spent several hours at this today, Dennis. Unfortunately, the most
susceptible part of the iris is the center, bloom stalk fan. When it gets
hit, and rots to the rhizome--no bloom. Sometimes just the outside leaves
are lost--that fan may still bloom in some fashion.
It's important to scrape out all the soft area, and apply bleach, as you
did, (or powdered cleanser with chlorine) to stop the progress of the rot,
or the whole plant can be lost.
Quite a bit of damage here this year. Silly see-saw weather and no decent
snow cover.
Dorothy Fingerhood
daf10@cornell.
(Newfield, NY)
