RE: "The rules were made to be broken"

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 08:29:00 -0400
From: "Mellard, David" <dam7@cdc.gov>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: RE: "The rules were made to be broken"

Hi Peter,

>........ and discovered that most of the 'rules' for growing them, as
>suggested mainly by Adrian Slack in his two books, are being broken,
and
>for the most are achieving very good results (some excellent).

I, too, find this to be oh so true. Probably the question to ask is do
they grow better in such and such mix or condition.

>One grower I know swears by using straight Sphagnum Moss,

My bogs have live sphagnum growing on the surface with the Sarr rhizome
being partially buried in the mix (1:1 sand, milled sphagnum)

I have a couple of 2 to 3 year old hybrid Sarr that are growing just in
live sphagnum in a plastic saucer used to put under plants to catch
drainage water. I plan to leave them out all winter to see if they will
survive freezing temps.

David

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