Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:51:55 EDT From: CALIFCARN@aol.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2045$foo@default> Subject: Re: Strange growth patterns
Howdy: Peter here at California Carnivores. Had a wonderful 3 days in
Mendocino with Geoff Wong. The plants in the bogs up there have never looked
better, but that's another story. If anyone goes up to the Fort Bragg area,
be sure to check out Robert Goleman's nursery Hortus Botanicus. We've know
Robert for many years and he has some nice CP for sale at his fabulous
nursery, where he grows all kinds of wierdness. There a little article and
picture of him and his popular nursery in the current edition of Sunset
Magazine, the one with the bar-b-q stuff on the cover. I almost strangled
Robert at the conference because we both had the giggles during one of the
talks and HE started it!
Anyway, some people have mentioned strange or disappointing growth
patterns on plants like S. leucophylla, like Kit in New York. Out here in
"sunny" California, I have always noticed that during chilly springs,
especially when nights are dropping in the 40s and 50s (as we usually do),
white trumpet plants will produced reduced or no trumpets early in the
season. Later in summer the giant pitchers come up, the ones they are famous
for, usually in August and September. New York and the New England area has
had a cooler than normal spring, from what I have heard, and that may delay
bigger pitchers coming up. Also, if Kit was buying bare root plants and it
was not winter and the plants were not dormant, they will often go into shock
and not perform well until later in the year or even the following year.
Plants hate to be root disturbed during active growth. Of course this goes
for venus flytraps too.
Tina and Colin from Triffid Park in Australia sent me a wonderful letter
about their visit with us during the convention. They also sent these funny
tags they put on their plants that they wholesale. For Nepenthes the tag
reads "Condom Plant"!!! I'm sending Barry some for his own amusement (they'd
make nice earrings too), but if we did that here in the States the religious
folk would protest!
Seeya. Peter
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