Re: CULT: floppy TBs
>> experiencing the same problem with their yellow or
>> bronze colored iris. They all have mentioned the iris
>> have been falling over with poor stems. Some of them
>> also are experiencing twisted stems. None of them had
>
> No, yellows are no more apt to have problems than any other
>color except maybe, black (but it's not with the stems....just weak
Well, I'm glad this topic has been brought up. I am very frustrated with
the fallen TBs in my garden.
Green & Gifted
Thornbird
Superstition
Winterland
Alien Mist
Blackout
Blackbeard
Coalignition
...and at least a dozen more!
have all flopped over. It's a process that takes about 3 hours, as I sat
at the back patio with some friends and we watched a stalk of Autumn
Orangelite go from about 70 degrees to totally horizontal in one afternoon.
What gives??
My first thought was maybe these all have borer. But I inspected them and
can't find any evidence. Maybe they are rotting underneath? Maybe my soil
is too soft?
They always flop in the heat of the day. When I wake up in the morning
there are no newly fallen TBs. When I come home from work in the late
afternoon, there are ALWAYS more newly fallen TBs. I just don't understand.
It's not just TB's, some AB's did it too, and some IB's. But it's mostly
been the TB's (about 33% of all the TBs I grow).
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html
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