This has happened to our Byblis before (although our weather isn't quite
as hostile as yours), and simply giving it a good drink was enough to
make it happy again. You will probably need to provide some support for
the stem when it gets around 12 inches long, so it probably wouldn't
hurt to stake it earlier than this is you are afraid of breaking/bending
the stem.
>John, if you chop off the B. gigantea, could you replant
>it and get another plant? I've read that the only good
>way to propagate this plant is from stem cuttings as I recall.
Actually it was Paul... (don't let the login ID fool you!) I'm not sure how
the stem cutting would take, since it is quite woody and lacking in leaves.
Even so, it is probably worth a try, just in case the new sideshoot decides to
die...
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