Re: Re: CULT: Shriveled Stem Anomaly

I had a lot of that this year.  I have always found it to happen most when it was hot and dry.  We have had drought.  It also only happened on certain varieties where others were completely unaffected.  It might have more to do with the root development that has occurred the previous year and the amount, though limited, has develpoed that Spring/bloom season.   

I'm guessing that some varieties might be more adept at early root development in the spring and would be able to withstand drought better.


Frost damage would show more in other parts of the plant and not just the stems.


Paul Archer
Raleigh, NC  Zone 7


-----Original Message-----
>From: ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
>Sent: May 14, 2006 12:59 PM
>To: iris@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Shriveled Stem Anomaly
>
>In a message dated 5/14/2006 3:44:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
>lmann@volfirst.net writes:
>
>I've  always assumed that was cold injury.  I see that fairly often  here.
>
>
>Thanks, Linda. Odd that it happened to only one cultivar of a collection of  
>about 20, innit? Do you have any idea when that would have occurred? What I  
>mean is, the buds on this thing looked fine and fresh and were set to open and  
>there has not been frost for a while. But the necks looked like they'd been  
>wrung, or is that wranged....Any other intuitions?
> 
>Cordially,
> 
>Anner, &c. &c.
>
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