Expensive plants bite it.

rja@sun.com (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Sat, 26 Sep 92 01:14:15 GMT

This is merely a plaintive letter seeking commiseration
for the confirmed passing of most of my D. petiolaris complex plants.
This is the first major plant loss I've had, and of course it
was the most expensive plants.

I just checked, and it seems that my lone surviving D. falconeri,
and my D. petiolaris aff. "Kununuraa", have rotted away. The
former didn't survive the last aphid attack, while it was
recovering from other ailments, and the latter died for some
unknown reason. I think it's been dead for some time, but
I wasn't sure.

In retrospect, I believe I killed the plants because I stored
them outside, where nighttime temps get down to 60 F. or so.
I am now a firm believer that the petiolaris complex requires
VERY warm temps, which makes them terrarium plants for me. Since
I love these plants, I'm going to have to get more, and next time
I'll put them indoors.

Sigh, that's almost $40.00 worth of dead plants. If any of you
studly growers out there have spare plants of the petiolaris
complex to sell, send me email. Otherwise I'll just have to
wait until next year and order from Allen Lowrie again :-(.

Robert