RE: VFT flowers

From: Semanchuk, Phil J (pjs20347@glaxowellcome.com)
Date: Wed Jul 08 1998 - 07:18:45 PDT


Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:18:45 -0400 
From: "Semanchuk, Phil J" <pjs20347@glaxowellcome.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2281$foo@default>
Subject: RE: VFT flowers


> 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. I wanna know if the blooming is
> normal for this season and if this can affect the
> reserves of the rhyzome for re-sprout new leaves in
> the next spring for a good growing. Please tell me
> what to do.

Arauco
It sounds like your VFT thinks it is spring already. I would clip the
flower stalk and hope for cooler weather that will encourage your plant
back into dormancy.

Good growing,
Philip
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