Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:04:48 -0800 From: Leigh.Perkins@sset.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4655$foo@default> Subject: Ping in the washing up
Hi list
Just thought I'd post you with something wierd that happened this
year, I wondered if anyone could explain it to me or just add this to
the wonderful list of various recipes to feed your plants.
3 years ago when I moved from London to Lincolnshire, some of my
collection moved with me, and as a stop gap, my wife and I stayed at
my parents place for a while before moving into our own place. I took
all my plants with me except for one little P. Moranensis.
The little plant thrived fairly well until the beginning of this year
when it started to look a bit on the deadish side (at least not at all
well).
One day during the Summer, my mother accidentally knocked the plant
pot from the kitchen windsill where it lived, into a bowl of hot water
that contained a high concentration of Fairy washing up liquid. My
mum snatched the pot up and put it back on the sill - and basically
waited for the poor thing to meet it's maker.
It didn't die, quite the opposite, it went mad, I have never seen
growth in a plant become so pronounced (especially after being
pronounced dead!). It is now going into it's hibernaculum, but is
still at least double the size of it's former growth.
This is not an advert for Fairy, I just wondered if there was a
suitable explanation for this?
Thanks list for a great year
Leigh
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