Re: Pings die after flower

Richard White (maldror@primenet.com)
Fri, 26 May 1995 00:26:36 -0700

>Why is it that everytime I have a Ping flower, the leave tips and then
>entire leaves turn brown and die? This starts in a matter of hours once the
>bloom begins to die. I have several that have not flowered and continue to
>look quite healthy. Should I prevent them from flowering by cutting off the
>flower stalk when it makes an appearance? The species is the most common
>sold in the U.S.

Same darn thing happened to me. I was wondering what was going wrong with
it, as everything else in the terrarium seems to be flourishing. Though
mine took a couple of days to start dying, as opposed to hours.