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Jun 11, 2020 5:50 AM CST
Name: Arlyn
Whiteside County, Illinois (Zone 5a)
Beekeeper Region: Illinois Irises Celebrating Gardening: 2015
One quick test for 'type of rot", is to "smell" it ! Fungal rots generally have a "beer", or "bread" smell....sort of "yeasty". Bacterial soft rot smalls 'bad'...like a rotten potato. Just guessing, but I would say you (with the wet weather, and warmer temps) are seeing bacterial soft rot.

If so, the "treatments" will be a bit different.....fungicides (like daconil) won't work on bacteria (but will help with any fungal leaf spot that might be present), so , scraping out the "soft spots", and dusting with *Comet cleanser, or, spraying with a 10% bleach solution, might be a better option. As with any disease, the more sun, and air, you can get to the base of the plant, the better it will "like" you ! Remove any weeds, spent leaves, spent stalks, as soon as you can.
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