Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 12:53:04 +-100 From: Nigel Hurneyman <NHurneyman@softwar1.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1815$foo@default> Subject: Re: Help with pigmies and byblis..
Hi Sebastian,
Byblis liniflora is an annual in the wild, lacking any form of underground storage
suitable for keeping the plant going when conditions are unfavourable. I have
kept plants for nearly two years in cultivation, but lacking ideal conditions of light
and heat, the plants have eventually succumbed (ironically last year because I let
them dry out).
Pygmies can live for several years. The dormant period followed by gemmae
production uses a lot of the plants' resources, and if the plants were not in tip-top
condition before Summer they might not survive. Here in the UK light levels are
not quite good enough for some pygmies - the solution is to stop them going
dormant by keeping them moist, cool and shaded in Summer, or to grow them as
annuals, discarding the exhausted parent plants after gemmae production.
How are your pygmies dying? Are they going black and soggy or brown and dry?
Regards, NigelH
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