Re: Re: CULT: Nebraska summer rot resistance?

Hi Janet

I often have the original rhizome experience some kind of  rot
damage over their first winter here, but the increases go on
to do well (this mainly happens with the big west coast rhizomes
.......haven't had this happen with the smaller rhizomes ).

Sandra
SE Manitoba
Zone 3

Janet Stromborg wrote:

>  Hi Robin,
>
> I lost Coral Chalice to rot this year too. A number of my other
> TBs also rotted over the summer, but they did put out some
> increases before the original rhizomes disappeared.  The
> replacements look strong and healthy and I'm wondering if these
> increases will have a better chance of surviving having been
> "born and raised" here.  Given that any of them live through
> the winter, I'm hoping that through selection I'll eventually
> end up with new strains of these TBs that will be more
> accepting of my zone 4 climate and red clay.  Have others on
> Iris Talk found that while their original TB rhizomes have
> died, the increases have eventually become acclimated and
> prospered?
>
> Janet in Denmark,  WI
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: rshadlow
>   To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:30 PM
>   Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Nebraska summer rot
> resistance?
>
>
>   I was just about convinced that rot was not too much of a
> worry
>   here, until last week that is.  I did have a few that rotted
> earlier-
>   notably every clump of Debrenee and most every Coral
> Chalice.  At
>   least it was just the center, the increases were fine.
>
>
>
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>
>
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