Re: CULT: rot

From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>

I wrote: 
> >Has anybody been brave enough to experiment with
> >this to see how much difference it makes whether rhizomes are Cloroxed
> >or not?  The rot organism is supposedly ubiquitous in soil, so it's not
> >like  we can get rid of it by treating the plant.

and John Bruce in Ohio replied: 
> I tried this one year on two clumps of a variety that has rotted well for
> me.
> They were planted  in the same area, and were roughly the same size.
> One clump was treated by removing dirt and scraping rot.  The other clump
> was also treated by removing the dirt and scraping out the rot, followed
> with 
> a douse of Clorox straight from the bottle. The Clorox was repeated after
> one week.
> Both clumps survived.  The unbleached plant took a long time to rebound.
> Many of the larger increases rotted, and the tiny ones from the tattered,
> ravaged mother rhizome took a long time to mature.  The bleached plant 
> went on to bloom that spring.

Thanks for doing that experiment for me John - so basically, we lower
the stress and improve the odds of recovery with the bleach doctoring. 
It's nice to know that in case I have a fussy grower that I really
really want to try to keep alive.  I wonder what would happen if
powdered limestone were piled on the cleaned rhizome.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA


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