Thomas I think that your first year is going to be a bust anyway in the
yield department. You get root growth that you need for next years harvest.

__Stephen



"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "yew" <nsyew@premier1.net> wrote in message
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> > Define "messed up". I live in Zone 8 (Pacific Northwest maritime[/color][/color]
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> > and have pulled up and transplanted hunks of cascade rhizomes in the[/color][/color]
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> > summer and fall. As we don't get much in the way of hard frosts here,[/color][/color]
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> > transplants do fine as long as I give them a little time (about a month)
> > before the first light frost. Granted, they don't grow well or produce
> > anything the first season, but they establish themselves nicely[/color]
> thereafter.
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> What I mean by messed up is that they will be starting the growth phase[/color]
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> late and then be forced into their flowering phase almost immediately,[/color]
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> the plant has all the wrong hormones floating around. Not much of a[/color]
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> crop there. Since the plant is going to be smaller and their will be
> appreciable crop this year, you may as well wait until next year to plant[/color]
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> rhizome and just do it right.
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> Tom Veldhouse
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