RE: CULT: Potting
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
After a month in the same conditions as the other
> TBs they have almost NO roots established. This is probably genetic and
> therefore specific to the varieties in question. I have read reports of a
> couple of these TBs to be slow or reluctant growers in the garden too...
> They are: FANCY WOMAN, CREDIBLE JUSTIFICATION, SPIN DOCTOR and in a
> previous batch SPIRIT WORLD. Anyone tried applying rooting hormones or any
> other techniques to jump start "difficult" cases like this?
>
> Any comments?
> Chris.
>
> Christopher Hollinshead
Chris, I really don't have an answer as to why there are some
rhizomes that just don't perform in pots. Last year Schreiner's
LENTEN PRAYER absolutely refused to sprout roots and just
withered and died. This year, I have even more potted and do not
have a solitary one that has not grown, so it may be genetic.
Maybe, the root hormone or stimulator might just do the trick. I
have never used it.
You mentioned plastic pots 'heating up.' Do you have your
pots in the shade? I have never noticed any heating up I guess
because the potted irises are in total shade and survived 106o we
had in mid August.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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