Irises: Iris rot, 1 by Oldgardenrose

Oldgardenrose wrote:
One alternative to discarding an important iris would be follow the normal procedure of scraping and disinfecting the rhizome and planting it in a pot and let it grow for at least a year, keeping it isolated from others. It should either survive or croak and you do not take the chance of infecting other healthy irises. Just a piece of rhizome no larger than the tip section of your thumb can produce new growth with a little tlc.

This is a pic of a very small rz I wanted to keep to see what cultivar it was. It should survive the winter and produce good leaves next spring and possibly bloom.