Re: CULT: Disease resistance
- To: "Patrick Orr" , i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Disease resistance
- From: w*
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:49:52 -0500
- Priority: normal
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
On 3 Oct 99, at 20:42, Patrick Orr wrote:
> From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>
>
>
> Do you know if there are cultivars resistant to this disease? Did any of
> the historics in Texas or Oklahoma show any resistance to Scorch during
> the seventies and eighties?
>
A lot of those irises are historic now! Scorch is unpredictable.
It can take MADAME CHEREAU or STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. It
does not discriminate. It can take the weak cultivars as well as
the strong. I don't think any cultivar is more or less susceptible to
scorch.
> Along with good branching, bud count, form, etc. that are hybridized,
> disease resistance should be worked on as well. I know there are some
> hybridizers out there working on developing disease resistant varieties,
> but is Scorch one of them?
>
Doubtful since the cause is unknown.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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