P. ehlersae nervous breakdown?
Chris Marsden (100620.2156@CompuServe.COM)
27 Jun 96 14:35:04 EDT
Hi All,
Yes, I think one of my plants (not me, though a day on crutches
does tend
to drive you round the bend) has had a nervous breakdown. I have a pot
of 3 P. ehlersae's, one os growing happily though is still in it's tight
winter bud, the second is also growing happily, sending up a flower and
looks as if it might be coming out of it's bud but the third I gently
touched one of the outside leaves in the rosette and all the leaves on
the plant fell off. They fell into a nice neat pile and just left a
tiny bud in the middle of the rosette which has some lovely lucsious (?)
white, firm roots on it (going down into the soil!!). Does anyone know
whether my plant will survive, why they are still in their winter
rosette or why this 'nervous breakdown' was caused? I am not too
bothered id it doesn't survive being as it supplied me with 30ish leaf
cuttings, most of which were already growing a small plant when they
fell off the mother plant.
Kind Regards,
(Puzzled) Toby