Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:28:36 +0000 From: <mrwu@cello.qnet.com> (Howard J. Wu L.Ac) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg53$foo@default> Subject: Growing U. longifolia
On growing U. longifolia: This plant grows like a weed for me in live
sphagnum under fluorescence. I put some in a tall recycled plastic
cookie container then seal it to keep it in constant high humidity. It
will fill the container in a few months. However after a point the
growth will slow down unless I divided it and give it more sphagnum.
While CP's "don't like to be fertilized", obviously they can only get
as large as available nutrients allow in a closed system as would any
plant. I can see lots of tiny traps along the sides of the container
over time so it must be hungry for something...
Incidently, this strain has never bloomed for me or anyone else I
know who had it. However, I have a plant given to me as 'U. endressi'
which may just be a 'dwarf U. longifolia.' This plant last summer gave
me several purple flowers with yellow on it that looks just like U.
longifolia picture in a book. I grew this the same way.
Howard J. Wu
Bishop Ca.
mrwu@qnet.com
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