Re: Distorted and stunted iris
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Distorted and stunted iris
  • From: &* S* <i*@suttoniris.com>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:18:42 -0700
ditto on our part, been washing in a 3% bleach solution for decades. the damage indicated sounds a lot more like chemical (herbicide) damage.....just an observation.
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] Distorted and stunted iris
I agree with Chuck. My irises are first rinsed of dirt, then soaked in a 10% bleach solution for less than 5 minutes, then well-rinsed again and hung up to dry before shipping. No complaints. -- Griff
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Chapman 
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:14 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] Distorted and stunted iris

Thanks for this information.

I suspect that  this was too much bleach or soaking for too long.  Too
much of a good thing.

A wash with bleach normally wouldn't  cause this problem.  Also  after
bleach treatment plant should be rinsed with  water.

Chuck  Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Baxley <baxleyeugene@yahoo.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tue, May 15, 2012 4:26 pm
Subject: [iris] Distorted and stunted iris

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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