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Jan,
One practice to avoid scorch on newly planted
irises here in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix) is to position the iris
so the sun, as it travels across the sky, travels over the top of the
fan, rather than hitting one side of the fan in the morning only to scorch the
other side in the afternoon. After more fans come up from the rhizome there
is little you can do, but by then (hopefully) the rhizome is
established.
----- Original Message -----
From:
j*@hotmail.com
To: i*@onelist.com
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 9:19
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: rampant
growth/ & scorch
>I've noticed that top growth doesn't have
>anything
to do with how well plants perform here, but root growth >has a
>lot
to do with it. Growing in pots is a big help in sorting >out the
tough
>ones to give more room - I set them out as soon as >roots
start coming out
>the bottom of the pots (weather/soil moisture
>permitting).
>The rampant growers put on phenominal root growth
immediately. Poor
>growers take forever.
>Linda Mann east
Tennessee USA
I agree with you Linda, that root growth is more
important than top growth.
I do find that a particular cultivar might do
well in a pot and not so well
in the garden, depending on where I put it.
It could be that I have a large
range of soil, and drainage situations
here. I lifted both DAREDEVIL and
FANCY WOMAN last year, because they
looked like they were going to die. Both
immediately started to grow well
in their pots.
I'm pleased to say that STATUS SEEKER, which I bought 2
years ago, and which
I am sure was suffering from scorch, and just failed
to thirive, is now
growing. I potted up 4 tiny offsets from the dying
parent rhizome, and they
did nothing for ages, but are finally putting up
healthy leaf growth, and
look as if they will survive.
Does anyone have
any experience with 'scorch victims' and could tell me what
is the
likelyhood that this condition will recurr.
Cheers, Jan, reading my e-mail,
for a break from swinging the pick in the
soon to be new garden bed.
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