RE: A couple questions - and some plants for sale

From: Mellard, David (dam7@cdc.gov)
Date: Fri Oct 22 1999 - 05:58:22 PDT


Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:58:22 -0400
From: "Mellard, David" <dam7@cdc.gov>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg3655$foo@default>
Subject: RE: A couple questions - and some plants for sale


>First of all, my D. intermedia ...... In the middle of the plant,
>there are all these little...things (I'm not sure how to explain it --
>they look like new leaves that are about to come up). What
>is this? Is this what they call a winter bud?

yes

>Second of all, my S. minor was producing alot of new baby pitchers. The
>big old pitchers died and it sent up about 8 new ones. But they got to
>the point of about 5 in. tall (much smaller than the older pitchers) and
>then they stopped growing. For a couple weeks they shot up, growing alot
>bigger every day, and then they stopped. Why is this? Is there anything I
>can do the make them start growing again?

It's probably the onset of dormancy.

David
Atlanta



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