RE: Distorted and stunted iris
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: Distorted and stunted iris
  • From: E* H* <e*@mymts.net>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:56:10 -0500
Morning Eugene and all.

I always swish all new rhizomes in 10% bleach solution, then rinse right away
in clean water.  Over the years, I've found this helps their survival,
especially for rhizomes that come from warmer zones.  I've never noticed the
problems you're having though.

El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada


> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:22:53 -0700
> From: baxleyeugene@yahoo.com
> Subject: [iris] Distorted and stunted iris
> To: iris@hort.net
>
> In 2010 I purchased some iris from a garden. Some of the iris grew almost
> normal, but most of them grew abnormal in some way. I searched and
researched
> to discover what I had done to cause stunting and distortion of those iris.
I
> pruchased more iris in 2011 from the same garden.and I got the same
results.
> In searching for an answer I discovered that washing iris rhizomes in
bleach
> solution can cause stunting and distortion of iris growth. Some of them
die.
> The seller admitted to useing a bleach wash. It seems that the bleach
prevents
> the rhizome from taking up adequate nutrition until it is worked out of the
> iris. If the iris lives through the first year it will apparently recover
and
> grow normally, but you have all the anxiety and agravation of the situation.
>
> It is sickening to me to see newly purchased iris rhizomes growing with a
> fan about one inch high that should be six or eight inches high. Then the
next
> year grow a fan or two which is about six to eight inches long that is
stunted
> and grows curved over to one side or the other of the rhizome so far that
the
> end of the longest blade touches the ground. The curved leaves have
prominent
> ridges on them sometimes.
>
> If new purchases do this, it is not your fault!!!
> Ask the seller if he/she used a bleach wash on the iris before shipping.
>
> Eugene Baxley
>
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