Re: wilted sarrs

LCCSB St._Francis (b3fra002@freenet.niagara.com)
Fri, 26 May 1995 13:25:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 25 May 1995, Barry Meyers-Rice wrote:

>
> HOWEVER, I know that you are an established and experienced _Sarracenia_
> grower and are probably not talking about plants new to your collection. I

Actually yes, these rubras a new to my collection as of last year, and
they did this last summer as well. Maybe they need to adapt!

> grow all my _Sarracenia_ (an exhaustive list, as you know) in 30--40%
> humidity and temperatures as high as 110 F. If a plant fresh from the
> east coast found itself in my greenhouse it would no doubt wilt, but
> my plants have acclimated themselves nicely. Furthermore, since
> _S.rubra_ occurs in a wide variety of environments---having an
> impressive distribution in the SE US, I would suspect it is
> particularly adaptable. So I DO NOT think this is a problem from the
> humidity and temperature alone (since it is only affecting a few of
> your plants) unless your growing arrangement has a few relatively
> severe micro-environments.
>
> I suspect some sort of problem in the water uptake in your plants.
> Did the pathology lab look at the roots? Is the root system healthy
> or for some reason anemic?
>
>

Roots were great!

I'm going to remove these plants from the greenhouse to a semi shaded
area outside. Our humidity varies between 60-80% most of the summer.
I'll see what happens! I'll keep you'all posted, hopefully this will
solve the problem. Thanks to all of you for your input!

Sincerely, Carl J. Mazur
b3fra002@freenet.niagara.com

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