Date: Wed, 13 May 98 00:23:18 -0500 From: Trevor Christensen <situla@spacestar.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1627$foo@default> Subject: Re: Home Depot, Etc.
>Has anyone considered or, better yet, investigated the origin of the plants
>> they sell?
Dustin:
Buy the plants and let them live. The possibility of harvesting plants
from the wild and letting them rot in a superstore is one thing, the
other possibility of harvesting them and keeping them alive, therefore
possibly producing more plants far outweighs what would become of them if
they were passed by on one's way out the door.
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> In bold print it gives the best
>info of all: Use Distilled water only- NO TAP WATER. While I would have
>added rain water to the list, distilled water's never killed any of my
>plants.
Paul:
Yes, every label states that you must not use tap water, and must
provide them with sun and other tidbits, else I don't know what the
labels would have to say. However, few are capable of adding the *right
few words*, only about 20-30, which will add a comprehensive,
knowldgeable tone to the instructions. If the plants are watered at all
in their short life at the store I know not, nor do I know if the waterer
uses purified tap water on the five half dead flesh eating killer
bear-trap plants which come complete with a horrid drawing of something
similar to a VFT with silverware and a drooling tongue; this quint
Dionaea display made up the CP complement of the Home Depot here.
Also, just to add a useless fact in: Distilled water and rain water are
in most regards the same thing. Though rain water may contain more
"stuff" due to runoff from farms and the mississippi river, they are both
produced by what may be considered distillation.
The amazing thing is how comprehensive the label on my first two CP's
was. It went beyond the norm and explained WHY you must do such seemingly
painstaking operations in order to maintain what is thought to be used as
a novelty house decoration. The plant posessed no brand-name (that I saw)
just "Carnivorous plant: Pitcher plant"
Go well;
Stay well:
-Trevor
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