Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 18:03:09 -0600 From: lasseter@chemvx.chem.tamu.edu (Benjamin Lasseter) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4282$foo@default> Subject: They're dead.
Dear Friends,
I admit to it. I killed my carnivorous plants. Although it was
not a deliberate act, the damage has been done.
For the last five weeks, I have been going through a series of very
difficult exams at Texas A&M University. I knew early on that something
bad was happening when I saw that the traps and all the new leaves growing
on my Venus Fly Trap were going black at the ends. Yet each night, I would
come home late and say, "Tomorrow I will do something to arrest the
problem." A week and a half later, the problem had rather increased in
magnitude and even extreme measures did not seem likely to save my plants.
A combination of the wrong soil, a burnt out light bulb in my artificial
light, tap water instead of distilled water, and a severe fungus problem
had all become one very severe problem within that time.
The plants died. The moral to be learned: tomorrow is probably too
late.
So, now I start again, and this time will take more care than before.
Sincerely,
Benjamin F. Lasseter
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