Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:21:47 -0700 From: "Craig S. Gardner" <cgardner@zapcom.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1738$foo@default> Subject: Raising Darlingtonia
Having seen a lot of messages about the difficulties in growing
Darlingtonia
and the pains' people go through (frozen bottles of water and such).
I thought I would tell about 2 Darlingtonia I have been growing for
3 years in an Indian grinding stone it weights about 15 lb. The soil is
about 1" deep in the center and it sits in the south end of my
greenhouse
in full sun. I originally planted a VFT and 2 rosetted sundews and
U. livida in the stone but a few Darlingtonia seeds where dropped on
the
soil and soon germinated. I just left them expecting them to die
(I had several hundred growing in trays). Well, the soil dried up
completely
several times each summer killing the VFT and sundews but the Utric and
Darlingtonia just keep growing. The Darlingtonia are about 3" tall now
much
larger than most of the others that were started at the same time. I am
not
saying this is the proper way to grow Darlingtonia this is the
exception.
What I am saying is that it may be better to grow from seed hopping for
a
plant or two that grow better in your location.
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