Stickness
Laurent Ide (lide@dvddd.com)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:08:43 GMT
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Sure that smallest plants are more
sticky, because they're closer to the wet ground. You can easily
observe this on high plants like D. capensis or D. regia: the base of
the plant is in good health, but the higher leaves are dry. Now the
mines are in 'dormancy', but I observe that they make a lot of glue,
because the relative humidity has increased by temperature diminution.
Other reason is that my droseras are South-African species, and it's
now the summer out there. Particular effect of this is what we can see
on D sp 'Magaliesberg' : dormancy conditions make it 'dying', brown
leaves, no glue... But it begins to flower ! I never really observed
bad effect for spraying finely water on them.</fontfamily>
Laurent