Re: Still having trouble with D.Capensis

From: dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Date: Mon Dec 15 1997 - 16:30:00 PST


Date:    Mon, 15 Dec 97 19:30 EST
From: dave evans                           <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg4729$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Still having trouble with D.Capensis

Hello Matt,

> One of those seems fine except for one problem - every time a new leaf
> uncurls, it opens 2/3rds of the way, and then stops. the last third
> turns brown and dries up. Every single leaf now looks like this, but it
> continues to put out new leaves regularly.
> The other is a wide-leaved capensis, my only one. (I have LOTS of
> regular ones, imagine that..) I think I've lost it. Even after
> repotting, (2 or three weeks ago now) it hasn't even tried to put out
> any new leaves, and all of the leaves it has are going yellow and dying.

   I'm not sure why, only the normal and green (which looks just the
regular but has no red) D.capensis grow well for me. I think it might
be virus or some other pathogen at work. After all, D.capensis "forms"
are often made via cuttings which will have whatever the parent has
as far as diseases go. Then again, perhaps these are other varieties,
not yet discribed formally, which have a more specific needs than the
monster weed most of us know. All I can say is that I lost all the
other types of D.capensis, but I don't miss them because they never
looked as healthy as the other robust growers- which leads me to think
they have something pathogenic and their passing was good riddance.

Dave Evans



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