Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 17:47 EST From: dave evans <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1081$foo@default> Subject: Re: Re: New member follow up...
Hi Paul,
> > Not quite (I'm still working on that one ;), that's why I
> > have to place chicken wire around anything *larger* than an adult
> > Sarracenia.
>
> You mean chicken wire keeps squirrels out? I doubt it would keep the
> ones we get out... unless it was electrified. Hey! (Hmmm... nah.)
** should have read: smaller. Yes, it does keep them out because
I only secured it at the bottom, the top will flop if any pressure
is applied. The squirrles don't like it and can't climb on it.
If they could figure out they could simply push it down and walk
over it, I'd be in trouble!
> > No, I haven't and after seeing one, realized that alot of CP's
> > the unit doesn't have enough lighting.
>
> Actually, that strikes me as odd... the model I'm getting is supposed to
> supply extremely high amounts of lighting. I'll use the f/stop method
> (when the Klima Gro arrives...) and test its output. I know the tall
> boxes seemed feeble, but the lighting in the "small" unit I got was the
> brightest I've ever seen.
Perhaps, this smaller unit will work well. I think the main cause
of the weak lighting in the bigger ones was the distance from the
bulb to the soil surface.
> Actually, I purchased drosera adelae at Home Depot a week ago. Its
> doing fine in a little makeshift terrarium right now. (Along with a ping
> that I think is a longifolia- it was mislabeled... and a VFT) On close
> inspection, the d.adelae is actually three plants and the ping is one
> major with two babes and a flower scape rising. I doubt the flower
> scape will succeed since I began transplanting it before I noticed the
> shoot.
Ping flowers are fairly strong can often make through stress
without aborting. Also, if a butterwort is transplanted into
media it likes, it may not get shocked at all...
Dave Evans
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