Re: VFT flowers

From: Carl Strohmenger (HSC) (cstrohme@com1.med.usf.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 08 1998 - 03:02:04 PDT

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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 06:02:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Carl Strohmenger (HSC)" <cstrohme@com1.med.usf.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: VFT flowers

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Arauco Schifman wrote:

> I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I have 3 VFT's and one of them
> flowered in the past summer and gave me viable seeds. Now we are in
> winter, but it's very mild. My 3 plants are producing the flower stalk
> (which is more thick and long than the one in the summer) and they are
> producing smaller leaves too, because the season.

f you do not want to produce more seed at this time, you could cut
off the flower stalk. Then cut it into short sections and lay each section
of stalk on some moist peat, keep moist and in bright light. You may get
new VFT plants from the sections of stalk.

- Carl

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