Re: CULT: iris rot
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- Subject: Re: CULT: iris rot
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 21:21:37 -0700 (MST)
Dennis Kramb wrote:
>
> . . .
> 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???
>
>
Dennis -- You're doing the right thing. Like you, we had several hard
freezes during the past 2 weeks. The frozen center fans that I missed
spotting and cutting off earlier are now turning dark and rotting, and a
few have rotted to the rhizome before the damage became apparent. These
include I BLESS and some of my seedlings. I'm afraid there's a lot more
rot on the way -- and I don't trust El Nino not to send some more cold
snaps our way. But, barring more such freezes, I am optimistic that we
will get bloom from those fans that weren't cut down into a forming
bloom stalk. If not, there are going to be a lot of iris that I don't
see this year.
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA
jgcrump@erols.com
Griff C
