Re: CULT: Scorch
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Scorch
- From: j*
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 19:34:50 -0400
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From: wmoores@watervalley.net <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Saturday, May 06, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Scorch
> They were hit by rot
>> (which sounds like the scorch herein described) . . .
> Scorch occurs early in the spring well before bloomstalks
>emerge. If you . . . have bloomstalks in your diseased clumps, I am
thinking
>you have Southern Blight or just plan old-fashioned soft
>rot...sclerotium rolfsii. . .
>the entire plant turns to mush and is foul smelling.
>
> Give this condition in your garden a sniff and report back later.
>
Yeah, Walta, you're right. That's what it is. I was able to surgery the
one clump in place, but had to fork the other one (the beautiful seedling,
of course). Saved about a third of the rhizomes, which have now been bathed
in 20% bleach solution, rinsed, and are drying out before replanting. Some
of the stalks may bloom though cut, allowing me to pluck some pollen.
Griff
jgcrump@erols.com in Virginia
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