mumblings

Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Wed, 18 Sep 91 11:45:36 +1000

I've been fighting an ongoing war with aphids on some of my
CP, mainly drosera and dionea. I resolved the problem on
my pot o' flytraps masterfully, with a skillful application
of half-strength diazanon, sprayed on. More recently my
D. prolifera and maybe D. x Nagamoto (which is growing like
a weed; thanks Barry) got them. So, I've sprayed them with
a 1/4 str. diazanon solution. The D. prolifera looks a bit
shriveled up now, but it's still alive, and I think I may
have killed the aphids. Just FYI.

Propagation: while pruning my plants, I accidentally cut
off a length of D. filiformis last month, on the 8th. I
packed it in moss, and put it in my terrarium under lights.
One month later, after moving it around and thus changing
the lite intensity, the leaf is sprouting at least one plantlet.
I've also moved a D. prolifera plantlet in, and even at 80 degrees
during the day, and near 100% (guessed) humidity, it's growing
real fast under lights, and stays quite dewey.

Blooms: U. livida is sending up a scape finally. Only after keeping
it quite wet did it do this. P. agnata is also sending up a scape.
Maybe I'll try and self-pollinate it when it blooms...