Re: Ping in the washing up

From: Carl Strohmenger (HSC) (cstrohme@com1.med.usf.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 08 1997 - 03:37:29 PST


Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 06:37:29 -0500 (EST)
From: "Carl Strohmenger (HSC)" <cstrohme@com1.med.usf.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg4656$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Ping in the washing up

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 Leigh.Perkins@sset.com wrote:

> I took
> all my plants with me except for one little P. Moranensis.
>
> One day during the Summer, my mother accidentally knocked the plant
> pot from the kitchen windsill where it lived, into a bowl of hot water
> that contained a high concentration of Fairy washing up liquid. My
> mum snatched the pot up and put it back on the sill - and basically
> waited for the poor thing to meet it's maker.
>
> It didn't die, quite the opposite, it went mad, I have never seen
> growth in a plant become so pronounced (especially after being
> pronounced dead!). It is now going into it's hibernaculum, but is
> still at least double the size of it's former growth.

Question? Does Fairy washing up liquid contain measurable quantities of
Phosphorus? That could lead to unusual growth patterns.

- Carl



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