Brad, you didn't ask me, but my Venita Faye came from the Monterey Bay club sale in 2013. It was, and still is, a nice sized rhizome. It hasn't rooted well and it's just been sitting there. Hasn't bloomed, hasn't increased. Other Iris in the same bed are doing well.
I was out puling off leaves off the collection still in pots and noticed one I got from the sale last August has not rooted at all.. Does anyone ever use a rooting hormone to jump start a rhizome?
