Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:24:59 +2100 From: thrower@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu (Doug Thrower) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg803$foo@default> Subject: pineapple needles
What exactly are pineapple needles? Are these the palm-frond like leaves
of the plant or the pointed scales that cover the fruit?
Doug
>
>I found out that using pineapple needles stimulates the growth of CP's
>without the use of any other fertiliser (the mixture I use is 3:1:1:1
>peat : sieved pineapple needles : washed coarse sand : perlite (expanded
>aluminiumsilicate)).
>
>I think it's because the needles decompose slowly and thus give away
>their nutrients slowly. In this way, the plants get a low but constant
>supply of nutrients that do not burn their root system, but stimulates
>their growth.
>
>The effects are most visible with seedlings, as they can not yet catch
>prey from the air and have to get their nutrients from the soil. I
>noticed a stunning effect on Dionaea seedlings of 1 year old (half of
>them were replanted the next year in a "normal" mixture (6 : 2 : 1 peat
>: perlite : sand) the other half was replanted in the new mixture (4 : 2
>: 2 : 1 peat : needles : perlite : sand (in the mean time I have changed
>to the above 3:1:1:1-mixture)). The second group grew out to mature
>plants in one season and some even flowered during that autumn (I know
>that's the wrong time of year, but sometimes they do)). The first group
>grew at their normal (?) slow pace.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Wim
>
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>Topic No. 7
>
>Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 09:04:54 -0500
>From: LEE FOSTER <lfoster@spyder.net>
>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: Only have one VFT
>Message-ID: <331ADA86.1717@spyder.net>
>
>I only have one VFT. Is there anyone who would be interested in trading
>VFT pollen when the time comes? If anyone is interested you can email
>directly to my address.
>Thanks,
>Lee
>
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>
>Topic No. 8
>
>Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 07:59:10 -0800
>From: freidm@involved.com (Matthew Freid)
>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: nepenthes pollen
>Message-ID: <3319A3CE.1FD9@mail.involved.com>
>
>Hello all. I am looking for Nepenthes alata or similar pollen to try to
>produce seeds from my plant. Does anyone have any available??
>Thank you,
>Rebecca
>
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>
>Topic No. 9
>
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 11:00:29 EST
>From: jellison@ceps.nasm.edu (Pat Jellison)
>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: My CP's like fishtank water
>Message-ID: <9703031600.AA03856@ceps.nasm.edu>
>
>Hello CP-ers,
>
>A while back I promised to post w/results of using fishtank water on my CPs.
>The short answer is, they're doing rather well with it.
>
>Background: I have one covered but vented terrarium w/ a cape sundew
>(D.capensis),
>two purple pitchers (S.purpura), and two VFTs (D.muscipula), all planted in
>live sphagnum.
>
>The fishtank is a 55gallon tank w/discus cichlids; no plants in the tank;
>wet/dry
>filter; water is a 50/50 mix of pure RO water and carbon-filtered tap water.
>There certainly is fish waste in the water, but in small amounts because we
>change water so frequently.
>
>For the past month I've been using some of the change-out water on my CPs. The
>results are good. I had been close to losing the VFTs to rot, and my pitchers
>looked pretty feeble. With the tank water, the pitchers have colored up
>beautifully and the VFTs are reviving. The sundew is still marginal (had a
>bout with fungus in January). So that's my report!
>
>Cheers (and thanks to all on the list who kindly helped me ID my sundew
>last fall!)
>
>Pat Jellison (jellison@ceps.nasm.edu)
>
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>
>Topic No. 10
>
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:19:53 -0800
>From: John Walker <jorwa@syspac.com>
>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: Re: Only have one VFT
>Message-ID: <199703031719.AA115639593@hplms26.hpl.hp.com>
>
>At 06:13 AM 3/3/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>I only have one VFT. Is there anyone who would be interested in trading
>>VFT pollen when the time comes? If anyone is interested you can email
>>directly to my address.
>>Thanks,
>>Lee
>*********************************
>Hi Lee,
>
>I think that you will find that you only need 1 VFT in flower to produce
>seed. I use a small paint brush (the kind used in painting with water
>colors) and brush the pollen from one flower onto the pistil of another
>flower. I never seem to get a lot of seed but I do get some. The seed can
>be found in the dry, black flowers several months later. They are small,
>black, and glossy.
>
>Hope this helps,
>John in Phoenix
>
>
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>
>Topic No. 11
>
>Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 12:45:24 +0000
>From: Lance Jerale <ljerale@valders.k12.wi.us>
>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: Introduction
>Message-ID: <331AC7E4.21EE@valders.k12.wi.us>
>
>Hello-
>
>I'm a new subscriber to this group and also relatively new to the internet
>and e-mail. I've been teaching science to middle school students since
>1968, and am lucky in that a large part of my work involves sharing my
>interests with my students. Aviation, electrostatics, geology, astronomy,
>epiphytic cacti, orchids, and, of course, cp have all kept students busy
>through the years. My interest in cp started in childhood with VFT, then
>Sarracenia, Drosera, aquatic Utricularias, etc. My classroom often has
>"bogs" for students to study. A few years back I "discovered" Nepenthes,
>and my botanical interests will never be the same. I am interested in
>increasing my Nepenthes collection, and eagerly accept advice about
>culture, sources, etc.
>Re: Help...Nepenthes
>Although some Nepenthes can tolerate small amounts of chemical
>fertilizers with the only obvious negative results being reduced (or
>absent) pitchers, some others seem very sensitive, and will react by
>rapidly drying up- even in very moist surroundings. N. gracilis is one
>species that seems very intolerant of chemicals. No doubt the fine root
>systems of Nepenthes react badly to overdoses of "kindness". Natural
>nutrition might be the best way to go-- and with many pet shops providing
>live "bugs'' for lizard food, most cp'ers are in a position to feed cp as
>nature intended.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Lance
>--
>----------------------------------------------------
>----------------------
>Lance Jerale
> 414-775-9520 voice
>ljerale@valders.k12.wi.us 414-775-9509
>fax
>Valders Middle School
>Valders WI 54245
>
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>
>Topic No. 12
>
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:57:23 -0800 (PST)
>From: Eric Kamakea <ekamakea@haywire.csuhayward.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cp@opus.hpl.hp.com>
>Subject: Re: feeding plants
>Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970303124839.15982C-100000@haywire>
>
>
>last year people were talking about urinating around their plants to fend
>off natural predators. I did a "funny" one day out of boredom which
>wasn't quite so bad.
>
>I love to just stare at my plants, as if I can actually see them growing
>infront of me. I like to just admire them for what they are and how they
>grow. It relaxes me. I enjoy it. I don't like to be bothered when I am
>enjoying my plants.
>
>One day while enjoying my plants, I unconsciuosly picked my nose but
>didn't feel like interrupting my "therapy" to go clean off my finger so
>wiped the booger off on a red Drosera Capensis. To this day, that leaf
>has been the only Capensis leaf of my 5 or so Capensis plants, to
>completely wrap around something. Not even flies generate that
>response.
>
>Ya I know I'm crazy but at least I don't pee on my plants!
>
>Good growing to all,
>
>
>Eric Kamakea
>
>
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