Re: CULT: Scorch

 They were hit by rot
> (which sounds like the scorch herein described) during a period of
> more than a week when I couldn't work the seedling garden because of
> the standing water in the paths between the raised beds.  The rot is
> so pervasive throughout the clump that there seems to be no chance of
> cutting away the bad stuff in place and saving the rest.  I'm afraid
> I'm going to have to dig both entire clumps, bloomstalks (not yet
> open) and all,  disinfect what I can and replant the surviving
> rhizomes elsewhere.  Whether the buds will survive to bloom, I don't
> know, but the objective is to save the rhizomes. 

	Scorch occurs early in the spring well before bloomstalks 
emerge.  If you were at the convention in Dallas, I doubt that you 
saw a bloomstalk in any of those devastated clumps.

	If you have bloomstalks in your diseased clumps, I am thinking 
you have Southern Blight or just plan old-fashioned soft 
rot...sclerotium rolfsii.  Rhizomes remain hard with scorch but the 
roots become spongy, starving the plant to death, and  with SB/rot, 
the entire plant turns to mush and is foul smelling.

	Give this condition in your garden a sniff and report back later.

	Jim Browne of Memphis swears he can cure scorch by digging 
the affected clump and leaving it in the sun on his concrete 
driveway for several days.

	A stalled front over AR/LA/MS/TX has produced tons of rain for 
the last few days, and I fear an outbreak of rot destroying the 
eighty seed pods I can count thus far.

	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA (You should see Rick Tasco's 
GOLDEN PANTHER in bloom; however, only one at a time on the 
swooning couch)

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