I found the mortality rate of keeping mine bone dry over summer was
a bit too high. I like giving mine a water every now and again during
summer which seems to keep mine alive.
>While they were dormant, I got a little brave with one of the
>pots and upended it to find out what made this species "tick" as
>it were. Expecting to find a storage organ of some description, I
>was disappointed to find nothing that I could distinguish from
>the bits of stick that are present in the peat moss.
I tried the same thing with the same result... I believe the tuber is
very small and they tend to like to be right down the bottom of the
pot but I have never actually seen one.
-- Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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"It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork" he said. "We've got three
hundred and sixty three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's
about to break and we're wearing ... we're wearing ... sort of things,
like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..."
- Terry Pratchett "Moving Pictures".