Bonnie, unfortunately this is not the normal bacterial rhizome rot that smells horrible. It is a different type but even worse in that I have never been able to salvage a rhizome once this type hits. Lost 2 rhizomes this year, but fortunately I have other rhizomes of these varieties. The only odor I noticed was that of dirt, nothing noxious or horrid. I ended up taking out the bad rhizome each time, along with all fans attached, cleaning out all roots of that rhizome and placing them all in the trash, not the compost. So far the rest of each clump has been doing well.
