Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:34:33 +1000 From: "Paul Edwards" <edwards@net2000.com.au> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1353$foo@default> Subject: Fw: Small VFTs
Hi. I don't think my last message made it to the List, as I got no response.
Can someone please help?
Paul.
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> Hi everyone.
>
> Each year, around this time (Autumn in Aust.) I put my VFTs into dormancy.
> After a gradual reduction in light and heat, I finally remove them from
> their pots, spray them with anti-fungicide and put them in the fridge in
> some damp sphagnum (temperature is maintained around 5 degrees C).
>
> I noticed this year that they seem to have behaved differently from other
> years. They seem to have divided themselves much more than in previous
> years, and the plants are somewhat smaller. I don't want even more plants
> (I'm struggling to find room for them all as it is) but what I want is
> BIGGER plants. Is my enforced dormancy causing this? I've been doing it
for
> some years, and hasn't seemed to before (or not to the extent of this
year).
> Anyway, uprooting the plants doesn't cause them to divide, 'cause they
> already have at this stage. Can someone please help?
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Paul Edwards,
> Bampton Park,
> Neerim South, Victoria.
> Australia.
> edwards@net2000.com.au
> www.sympac.com.au/~bampton
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>
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