Re: CULT: TB: Is this Rot?

YES!!!!  Cut out the soft stuff, back to where the flesh of the rhizome is
clean.  Then dust that clean cut with Comet or some other cleanser with bleach
OR spray it with a Clorox solution, dilution really doesn't matter.  I've used
straight Clorox without harm.   Alternative:  use an anti-bacterial dish
detergent like Ultra Dawn, any brand as long as it has the anti-bacterial
triclosan in it.  That can be put on straight, no dilution, too.  Let the cut
rhizome be exposed to the air to dry thoroughly before you put dirt back on
it.   The fan should survive and grow just fine.  I don't know know if the
other end will die or if it will grow leaves of its own, as I've never had the
rot just in the middle part of a rhizome.
I know that some people say, "Let it go and make it survive on its own.  If it
rots out completely I don't want a weakling like that in the garden anyway.
They have to survive without babying them."  Well, each to his/her own
philosophy on that score.  I don't happen to subscribe to the "survive by
itself or else" way of thinking, especially when it's so easy to treat the
disease.

Arnold

Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
38 7th Street, NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
e-mail  koekkoek@mtcnet.net

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