Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 23:54:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Robin Dauber <rdauber@condor.depaul.edu> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2957$foo@default> Subject: Nepenthes maxima flowering, seed availability, and Ted's
Hello,
Thanks to Steve and everyone else who responded to my posting last week
about my flowering Nep. Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I wanted to see
if the flower stalk would make it...we had our first snow late Saturday
night. I brought the plant inside, and just put it back out Monday
afternoon. The flower stalk is a little droopy, but not dead yet.
Also, I was asked off list about sources for Nepenthes seed. Kurt, join the
ICPS. It's cheap, the newsletter is interesting, and best of all, they have
a seed bank. I recently planted a packet each of bicalcarata, fusca,
reinwardtiana, and stenophylla. I got zero germination on the first three,
but the stenophylla are going great guns. It cost me all of four or five
dollars.
Hey Joe, Ted's is about an hour south and west of the loop. It's late and I
don't have a map in front of me, but they are in Tinley Park and worth a
visit. They have a big table full of carnivores, and a long greenhouse full
of cacti and succulents, besides several houses full of tropicals, etc.
Wholesale prices (most times), no credit cards, yes personal checks. They
close early on Sundays (3?).
Here's hoping we don't get more of the white stuff for a while.
See you,
John in Chicago
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