Cult: iris rot
- Subject: Cult: iris rot
- From: g*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:34:45 EDT
I stoped getting the AIS bulletin as it seemed to me to have more for
hybridizers than the common gardener. But am much interested in this rotter
list. I put forward a year ago a question about the new hybrids being less
hardy, the response was soil and conditions and etc.
As I am trying to have a small retail business I have had several set backs:
spring rot, last summer being a rainy one, summer rot, and when rzs heave
late winter rot. So I think there are many rotten iris out there.
One type BB like an Edith Wolford but plainer is a survivor. Can't kill it.
And although I have picked and crushed every borer casing last summer and
spied no moths at dusk or dawn ( had butterfly net at the ready)
and sprayed cygon 2E profusely at just the prescribed right time I have borer
and borer rot!
I interestingly have this spring, found some borer pupae still viable, a few
borer larvea with their pincher like jaws. So I think the borer cycle has
expanded , increasing its survival rate.
Please send me list of hardy iris and list of rotters so I can finally have
my business be sucessful.
Doreen F. McCabe
176 carlisle rd
Westford. Ma 01886-4420
Thanks
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