Hi, Chris,
I’m sorry about the damage to your seedlings, What a
disappointment! There is a spray
for worms and caterpillars which contains a bacteria
which has a quickly fatal effect on the pests but is harmless to everything
else. I can’t think of its
name right now, but you can ask at a nursery. I would sure try it.
Francelle Edwards Glendale, AZ Zone 9
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Darlington
[mailto:chris.darlington@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:34 PM
To: spaceagerobin@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SpaceAgeRobin] Worm
damage
Hey everybody,
Hey everybody !
Imagine me in the seedling bed with a large white
towel. Now, imagine
me throwing it in to end the season in total
disgust :-( Well, that's
what I did today after discovering that small
white worms had borrowed
into the center of ALL of my seedlings causing
them to get gooey and not
open. All of my irises were effected and now
I'm going to have to take
serious action, for all I know, these are borers
that burrowed up
instead of down.
What is the least toxic yet effective insecticide
I can use against
these bloom season destroying pests ? If
this continues, I'll never be
able to grow irises here again.
Only one SA in CANAVERAL showed up with a brave
face and horns out
stretched to the sky. I immediately crossed
it with with my best TB
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. Even STH suffered from
this worm damage on some
flowers but it is hands down the best TB
here. DOCTOR NO is sick and
needs to see the doctor with symptoms like virus
marks and three aborted
full size stalks. I was pleasantly surprised
with FANCY WOMAN but only
saw one bloom and the rest aborted or got
devoured. I took rapid action
and crosses it on the only available victim, LIGHT
BEAM.
From my seedling patch, a THORNBIRD X GOLDEN
GALAXY seedling proved to
be the best of what bloomed and did show one small
horn. I have another
SKY HOOKS seedling which may not open fully but
does have purple horns.
I'll send photos when I can convince my wife to
down load them since I
don't have a working USB port here. Otherwise,
it's a total right off
here until I can control the worms and
borers.
I have managed to make a few crosses with pollen
sent from Bill and
Randall but most have not taken but I need to wait
on some more before I
cry wolf.
On a positive note, I've got 150 seedlings to deal
with from last years
crop and another 75 from the year before that I
thought might get a
second chance at germination. Even when
things look as bleak as they do
now, I still have hope that I can turn this bad
luck around.
Hope everybody fared better than I did.
Waiting for the Daylilies ;-)
Chris
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