Re. CULT: rotting
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- Subject: Re. CULT: rotting
- From: M* B*
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:54:36 -0400
I was very interested in what John Bruce of Ohio wrote about their
non-rot experience. Here in New England rot is certainly a problem so
I'd love to be able to duplicate his conditions. I can have wonderful
luck with a clump for several years and then suddenly lose vast
quantities of it almost overnight in a cool, damp spring or a cool damp
fall. Often there will be good bloom and healthy looking rhyzomes and
then death. I never get a smelly mess, just mush within a normal
looking shell.
I also have trouble where the leaves emerge from the rhyzome and do my
best to scrape away the soil so the base is exposed to air. That helps
until they dig themselves down into a little basin, usually about now,
and it's too late to lift them.
The advice to grow regional hybridizers' plants is very good and has
proven successful for me, except that the late Mary Dunn's irises do
very well for me. Go figure!
Margaret Boehm
Wilton, CT zone 6, we had our first frost last night and boy to I have
work to do.
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