VFT"S in ill health

John Phillips (phillips@library.ucsf.edu)
Tue, 19 Mar 96 10:39:09 CST

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>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: RE: Assistance needed for VFTs
>
>In Message Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:13:55 -0800,
> Brian Heikkil=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E4 <bheikkil@d.umn.edu>?= writes:
>
>>The problem is that the moss in one is turning yellow and brown and the leaves in the
>>other are turning light and a little yellow.
>>
>>The only thing I am planning on doing to help them now is to get them repotted in larger
>>pots, as they came in 2 inch pots. Can anyone give me any suggestions? Do I have to
>>feed them something (other than light) or will the go without well until a fly comes in
>>(which they haven't hatched here yet)?
>>
>>Thanks
>>:B
>>
>Hi Brian, Are you watering your VFT's with distilled or purified water? Are
>you growing them in 100% pure peat moss? Is you light a little too close to
>the plants and burning the leaves? First check these, then...
> 1) Repot them in 1/3 calcium free sand to 2/3 pure peat moss in at least
>a 4" pot.
> 2) Check the roots when repotting to see if there is any damage. The
>plants may have been dried out before you bought them, or watered with hard
>water which will start to kill the plant.
> 3) Water with distilled or purified water and keep them from getting too
>much direct sun or intense light until they start to grow a little. This
>will give them time to grow some more roots. If they can't take up water,
>intense light will dessicate them. Bright indirect light is best till they
>recover.
> 4) As they acclimate, put them under a transparent or translucent dome to
>give them more humidity. A cheap way to make one is to cut the bottom off a
>plastic 1 Gal. water jug.
> 5) If you need to put off the repotting, flush out the pots with
>distilled water.
>Hope this helps,
>..
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