Re: Spring sickness?, Potted spring shipments
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Spring sickness?, Potted spring shipments
- From: J* B*
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:11:56 -0400
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Jan & Marty said:
>This spring I potted several
> plants for our local iris club sale in July and they have not all done
well.
> Some are fine, some died, and some are just so so. We have had very
erratic
> weather this spring, several times going from weeks of 40's and damp to
90's
> and then back to 40's. Clearly the siberians in the pots did not like it.
This sounds like my experiences this spring. The weather has seen much
more up and down extremes than usual. I guess this puts much more stress
on the newly potted siberians than what I normally experience.
> As far as plants wintering over, coming up in the spring, and then turning
up
> their toes and dying I don't have any good ideas. Currier McEwen has been
> doing a research project on a mysterious sickness in siberians and this
may
> be it. You might want to write to him about it.
I will do that, but I think Margaret and Ellen may be right....the same
weather extremes
apply for the fall transplants. If the roots are just not well developed yet
(i.e.,
just enough to make it thru winter) maybe the weather did do them in. I
have
always had good luck with spring shipments, but I may have to re-think that
in the
future. I know that there is no "normal" weather, but the extremes we are
beginning to
get in early spring are certainly becoming more pronounced in recent years.
John
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John Bruce jbruce@infinet.com
SW Ohio, USDA Zone 5b, Sunset #35
USA--Mid-Midwest
AIS Region 6, SSI,HIPS,TBIS, SIGNA
President, Miami Valley Iris Society
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