Re: Cephalotus die-off.
Steve Clancy (slclancy@uci.edu)
Mon, 27 Sep 93 15:25:16 -0700
>
> I had read that Cephalotus will occasionally die back to the roots.
> Well, I just had my first experience with this. It was doing wonderfully,
> I had it 2 years and this year it had produced several very large traps
> and was growing great guns. One day I noticed that the lids were "down"
> over several of the pitchers, and within a week, the entire plant was
> dried and brown.
>
> Does anyone know why this happens? What is the best treatment of a plant
> that has done this? Right now I am just keeping it moist and in the East
> window that it has been in forever.
>
I had this same experience several years ago with a plant that had been
growing extremely well for a couple of years. At the time, I put it down
to spider-mites.
-- Steve Clancy
Biomedical Library
University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
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