Oh yeah, and under my man-eating plant of madagascar.
>plants have cut back on growth. I have no doc on collinseae:
>is it tropical?
Jah mon, dat it is.
>Oh, what's the procedure for removing gemmae? A mystery pygmy
Following Gordon Snelling's instructions in a recent CPN, I made an
aspirator and it works pretty well. If you don't have one of those,
I'd suggest putting some droplets of water on the gemmae mass, then
knocking them out with a toothpick, and using surface tension to carry
them away. What a pain, especially if you grow more than a dozen or so
species. The water droplet is really there to prevent gemmae from getting
flung a few feet into another pot, into the corner, up your nose, in your
mouth, and in your eyes.* Some gemmae, especially the flat ones like
pygmaea or X Badgerup, don't get propelled by the stipules this way.
*Yes, I've had every one of these things happen before I used my aspirator.
BAMR