Re: CP

Barry Meyers-Rice (barry@as.arizona.edu)
Fri, 8 Nov 91 19:45:51 MST

This reminds me of something that happened when I was driving on the
Air Force base where I teach astronomy classes in the evening. I admit I
was driving a bit fast, and was pulled over. When prompted by the cop I
reached into my glove compartment for the vehicle registration. Well
earlier that day I had been sucking gemmae with my aspirator. My aspirator
is a glass erlenmeyer flask, with a rubber stopper with two holes, and a
couple of rubber hoses tipped with glass tubes. All in all it looks a
lot like some form of exotic drug paraphernalia. When my glove box
opened, this thing flopped out and the cop's eyes got REALLY BIG. By
the time I convinced them I was not another statistic for the WAR ON
DRUGS, other cops had been called, and it was very exciting.

>Speaking of all those insecticides etc. I sprayed one of my S. purpurea(?)
>with diazanon mixed with Captan and it died....

Must have been the Captan, Earl. I use Diazanon on Sarrs with no ill effects.

I got a letter from Gordon in which he addresses some of the E-mail topics of
conversation.

He says he winters Sarrs outdoors. He only gets 2--3 weeks of frost.
His purp purps from Canada don't do so well. (I add that mine, which
get the deluxe northern Arizona catered hibernation service, attended to
by the lovely and talented Bridgett Meyers-Rice, do well).

He also thinks hibernation is not induced so much by temperature drops as
decrease in light exposure. He said, for example, he's induced hibernation
in D. rotundifolia by putting them in the shade, same ambient temperature.

He doesn't get concerned with liverworts. He sort of likes them.

Don, he says he's ``not 100% sure in regards to the P. kondoi either. My
large plant at this point appears almost identical to a neighboring P.
esseriana.''

Davin, he grows Darlingtonia out doors in Southern Cal and its hot there.
He doesn't use chilled H20 but he does water daily. They sit in water. The
humidity rarely goes over 50%, but can go over 90% at night.

Rob Allen, The Nepenthes labelled K.K. Sabah means Kota Kinabalu Saba.
Hope that means more to you than it does to me!

BAMR