Re: HYB: CULT:antibiotics, selecting seedlings

In reply to Walter, Laurie said:
<Probably true [that no cultivar is rot proof], and that's all the more
reason for me to continue to weed
                       the rotters out of my garden in search of the cvs
that do consistently
                       well under my specific growing conditions.>

This is what I've been doing for 25 yrs.

  < I don't believe I've had crown rot here ... yet ... and I don't know
how
                       I'd respond if I did.  That might just be enough
to convince me to give
                       up on beardeds altogether.>

I'm inclined to agree Laurie.

<....that sort of widespread "rot check" [introduction at $50 each and
widespread introduction]  is of little
                       concern to me as a private
gardener.....Apparently the  best I can hope to achieve is eliminating
the rotters in my garden. >

I reached this discouraging conclusion many years ago.  No way I'm going
to buy expensive cultivars that may have been 'cured' of rot in their
home gardens on the chance they won't be inclined to rot here,
especially if home is iris heaven.

Walter said:
<[in 1994 on tour gardens] There was rot in Oregon introductions and
Oregon seedlings.  There was evidence of treatment, too.  Some of these
seedlings that were rotting in Oregon convention gardens may have
bloomed in your garden this past spring! >

Somehow I suspect that anything that was rotting in Oregon never has
bloomed here, although I wouldn't be surprised if some from that long
ago have died here.  I must add tho that some occasional rotters also
produce enough new growth to be fairly good performers here in spite of
occasional rot.  IMMORTALITY falls in that category.

<If, however, those Oregon rotters were among my blooming survivors this

year, they are more than welcome to remain in my garden indefinitely
and  with my utmost admiration!   Laurie- northern MN>

Same here.  My garden goal is to have a few dozen cultivars that are
carefree, profuse reliable bloomers, that make clumps that don't have to
be dug, divided, and replanted every year or so to keep blooming.  In
other words, modern 'flags'.

So far, I have found only one - HARVEST OF MEMORIES.  I've been
'testing' it by planting it in every kind of wretched growing conditions
I can think of, including under the eaves of the barn where it is
competing with sprouts from a hackberry seedling and set two HUGE pods
for me this spring.

So far, only one of my seedlings is even close (DCGI-13: "Dusky Grape"),
and it is too early a bloomer to be reliable for me.  It's in California
now - something tells me I will hear about it if it rots there <g>

Well, I won't totally give up until I figure out how to get a higher
rate of 'takes' on crosses & faster turnaround on seedlings.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8

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