I'm glad to see you're keeping up on the literature, Michael. Incidentally,
I have some _U.capensis_ growing with my _Sarracenia drummondii_. Is this
going to cause problems?
(For any that don't know what's going on with this recherche exchange,
Michael and I are joking around using invalid bogus names. Sorry if the
humour is a bit narrow)
>Well, one thing I've wanted to do since I found out there was a Carnivorous
>Plant Newsletter was to convince someone to let me put the back issues online
>in an electronic format. Never knew who to ask.
J.P.: This sounds like a good idea (there are so many flying around
right now---I just hope we don't overextend ourselves and produce nothing).
I think the two people you should contact about this are:
Don Schnell Steve Baker
Rt. 1 Box 145C Rt. 1, Box 540-19AB
Pulaski, VA 24301 Conover, NC 28613
Don is a good sort, timely with correspondence, and of course a CPN co-editor.
Steve is handling the printing side of CPN. While Steve is not a person
to get in touch with if you wanted to submit something to CPN, he is
moving CPN towards computerization and may have already looked at the
project. Drop my name if you feel uncomfortable picking up a cold lead
like this. (I'm on excellent terms with both)
>But we don't charge for journals and back issues are a source of revenue for
>the CPN, aren't they?
You know, why can't you handle stuff like this the way we handle satellite
data in astronomy. Once the appropriate grant fees have been paid, we
are sent the instructions on how to sign-on, navigate to the appropriate
directory (with passwords) and ftp the data to home.
Granted, all you'd need is someone to grab a copy and then distribute it
for free to screw things up, but perhaps that wouldn't be such a large
problem.
>Although this is not a problem with my cps, I'm sure it
>is one that pops up frequently. I have some seeds of
>Amorphophallus titanum that are sprouting. The petiole
>not broken the surface. They are planted in African Violet
>soil because that is the medium suggested. Now the problem.
>There is a fungus growing on the surface of the soil of
>one of the containers. It looks very much like wet pet
>food. In fact, when I first saw it I thought a cat had
You can't do this manually? That's what I'd suggest. I trust no
chemicals.
Sometimes in my very wettest pots I get a firm, gelatinous, semitransparent
glop that develops. This starts as a thin coating and can build into
a layer several mm thick. It chokes all growth underneath it. What is this
stuff? I hear people call it slime mould, yet it has never transformed
into the mobile plasmodium form, nor has it fruited or done other
slime mould type things. It is not a mycelial type of mould. Is it
algae? Or, perhaps, is it ectoplasm from beyond the tenuous veils that
separate our corporeal dimensions from the mind-blasting vistas that
lurk just beyond our grasp---ready to leak into our senses and send
us reeling into insanity? Should I use fungicide?
Barzai