Re: Colour of VFT

From: BREWER_CHARLES@ecomail.damneck.navy.mil
Date: Wed Nov 12 1997 - 07:09:35 PST


Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:09:35 -0500
From: BREWER_CHARLES@ecomail.damneck.navy.mil
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg4315$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Colour of VFT


     VFTs come in all shapes, sizes and colors. I have plants that produce
     traps that are redder then red growing next to plants with hardly any
     color to them at all. A lot depends on the plant it self and
     certainly, how you grow them.(Conditions such as light, soil etc.) If
     your plant has the ability to produce nice red traps, half the battle
     is won, but if it does not, will look around for another. You can try
     growing your plant under several full spectrum fluorescent tubes.
     Place the plant within 3 to 4 inches of these lights for 14 hour a
     days. Watering your plant with peat tea helps or using pure peat as
     the main growing media also works. A lot also depends on where you
     live, your growing condition and if the plant has started or entered
     dormancy. Small to medium size vfts are more prone to produce redder
     traps then adult plants do, but there is always exceptions to each
     rule.
                               Charles Brewer
                                Va. Beach, Va.



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