Re: CULT: Borers? Fungus? Help!
From: "wstone" <wstone@volcano.net>
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From: Nancy Jentzsch <jentzsch@csn.net>
To: <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 10:58 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: Borers? Fungus? Help!
> From: "Nancy Jentzsch" <jentzsch@csn.net>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I've been gone from this list for over a year. I found all of you most
> knowledgeable and need your help with a problem.
>
> Our irises in Colorado are just beginning to bloom. Several of the plants
I
> have tenderly nurtured are displaying a problem that is new to me. I've
been
> battling aphids in this bed for several years. I caught it early this year
> and treated with Malathion. Now, as the buds are appearing and getting
ready
> to break, I find that several irises have buds that have turned light
brown,
> the outer cover is dry, the flower itself appears 'rotted', the stem seems
> pithy, and the surrounding leaves are yellowing and browning from the tip
> down.
>
> I have checked my books, particularly The Iris Book by Molly Price, and
none
> of the descriptions of iris problems seems to fit.
>
> I have 'poked' around the rhisome and it seems healthy.
>
> Any hint you can give me about what is happening and the course of
treatment
> I ought to pursue would be most welcome. I have at least 20 new irises in
> this bed and the entire bed was reworked two years ago (including the
> alfalfa tip from this list). The bed was cleaned of all debris last fall
and
> has been recleaned this spring.
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer.
Nancy: Off hand my first guess would be asking you if you had a freeze
while the Iris were in Bud. If so it is possible you will lose those buds.
Bill
wstone@volcano.net
Stone's Iris Garden
23801 Shake Ridge Rd.
Volcano, CA 95689
Sunset zone 7...3500 foot elev. 55 miles SE of Sacramento, California
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