Re: CULT: rhizome shape
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: rhizome shape
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- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:57:38 -0700
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wmoores@watervalley.net wrote:
>
> You can make your irises show 'elephant trunk noses' if you plant the
> rhizomes on ridges and irrigate between the ridges like Ben Hager
> did and also Keith Keppel when he lived in CA.
I think maybe Keith still does. The rhizome he sent to our club auction
of
Happenstance is the biggest I have ever seen.
It is 3 1/2"--across near the fan, and 7" long. It has two round
increases,
1 1/2" diameter, near the tip, and eight others near the fan. But when I
hold the fan vertically the trunk does not point down at all.
For those of you lucky enough to use real units, it's something like 8
cm
across and 14 cm long.
When you said 'elephant trunk noses' I had no idea you meant life-size.
Gerry, getting ready to go plant it.
PS I intend to take a pic of the monster and post it to iris-photos
--
g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
