Bonnie, I agree with Tom.....just leave it alone, and let nature take it's course. I have a couple that are doing the same thing, this year, and, in fact, I have had several, over the last few seasons do it...in my sand, I try to always keep those "stugglers" watered (NOT a problem , lately !!), and *most* usually will finally catch on, and take off.
If I receive one that is especially dry, or small, I'll pot it, right away....but, as Tom suggested, taking one out of the ground, and potting it just seems to always be the straw that breaks the camel's back .

Thanks, Tom and Arlyn. That makes sense. I have never had one with a fat healthy rhizome with no leaves at all. I will keep it watered.

Dee - sorry to hear that you are also having rot woes. But also happy to hear your beauties are about to be shipped!

More total loses.

I gave up on two, day before yesterday, that I'd been "nursing"....neither one was rotted, and both were still "solid", but both of them (planted last year) were "stuggling" all last summer and fall, did a poor job of leafing out this spring, and gradually lost what little "greenery" they had. I hated to do it, as they were both rebloomers I wanted to see grow, but, enough is enough ! So, I yanked the rhizomes, and gave them the "pitch".....maybe I'll try them again, next year

I found a second "Taste of Honey" elsewhere in the garden; so she is not a "total" loss. I have one bed that looks like it only has weeds in it. Not good. I am sure there are loses in there being "choked" off.

Dang. Sorry about Owyhee..... Going to have to try that again .....

More total loses

Happenstance
Dewuc Whatic

Nooooooooooooooo! I guess we won't see.....

actual, it did bloom this year. I have yet to post any pictures of this years bloom. I will get to it some time in the Fall. It was a one and done.

Happenstance not a good grower in this area (not only for me).

Sorry for the losses Greg -- this year it seems they just won't quit. I have several that are just hanging in limbo...........

I have a spot where I put all my losses when I find a tag...it is like a little graveyard! For me it is more important that the plants are marked with something that I can grab in a hurry because I always seem to forget where I stored my more permanent tags. So lately I have been using plastic knives and forks, and writing on the part that goes into the dirt. Even if I have a nice tag for one, eventually that iris will need to be divided, and that is when the id problem starts for me...

It looks like Eye To Eye is giving up the ghost. The run of very hot and wet weather didn't suit it - it is an Arilbred so I was fortunate to see it bloom at least. Persnickety also looks poorly. Only one of the rhizomes I had made it over winter and it had lovely bloom, but it is now down to one sorry looking leaf.

I just went to my notes to put down a "Persnickety" for you and I had "Secret Rites" written down as a get from! Duh. I don't look at my notes.

That would be too easy Greg!!

I also grow African violets. For the most part, I had been using baked outdoor dirt and perlite. When I switched to Miracle Grow AV potting mix, the leaves I was starting new plants from molded. The mold may have been from some new plants or the dirt or both. I stirred 1 tsp. of Actinovate powder into the big mixing bowl my AV soil is in. It isn't molding any more.

Would a ground drenching with Actinovate get rid of the harmful fungi? I am using it outside, with a hand pump sprayer on minor leaf spot and daylily and apple rust. It has done a great job on the apple tree! Last year the leaves were all orange. This year, just a few spots. I am respraying today. Also trying it on onion smut, then on powdery mildew on a lilac.

It is a bacteria that eats fungi, so I hope it keeps itself going in the mulch.

We had some of the worst heavy rains today that I have seen all Summer. It has been a horrible Summer this year here in NJ with rains. I'm fearful that many of the rhizomes I planted in the Spring will suffer from rot - but once the rains started, I began potting up the new rhizomes to keep them all from rotting in the ground since the Summer here apparently is going to be a very wet one and I have a lot more iris rhizomes due to arrive in the mail this Month and next. So I will pot them all up until Fall.

Sorry Patrick.. they had the rain in New Jersy on the news tonight. It doesn't look pretty... You're probably making the right decision to pot them all up.. What a pain though..

Well, I prepared myself ahead of time, by going out last week and buying 18 pots and a new bag of Garden Soil, but the new rhizomes coming in the mail always include "Bonus" rhizomes, so now I'm short on pots
and have to go out and buy more. Yesterday, I received "Vishnu" from SUPERSTITION IRIS GARDEN, and
"iris pallida" from Ebay. I got doubles now of I. pallida, and got a lovely gift of "Parthenon" from Superstition. I have more rhizomes arriving next week from Iris City Gardens in Tennessee.