Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:33:30 -0500 From: "Marc I. Burack" <marcb@companionfinancial.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3571$foo@default> Subject: Re: no question about it.
To Perry Malouf and others interested.
>
>Marc reported:
>
>> At the last record, out of the 4 plants that I "cut" (off the growing tips)
>> 4 days prior to spraying the plants, 2 of the plants sprouted not 1 but 2
>> dormant buds at the top. Now a week later, all 4 plants (different species
>> and hybrids) have sprouted 2 nodes at the top.
>
>I'd like to ask a question of Marc, about his Nitrozyme experiment.
>Did
>you cut the top off a Nepenthes and _not_ treat it with Nitrozyme, just
>to see what it would do in comparison to the others?
>
****(((At the time that I cut these four plants and sprayed them I did not
cut any other plants. )))*****
>
>I'm intrigued enough, to want to play with Nitrozyme--please remind
>me where I can get it.
>
***(((The only place that I have found that sells it is GTG Hydroponics in
Vermont (1800-56-hydro). I had to order it through the mail since I am in
Florida.)))***
>Let me also report some of my own observations. On a couple of
>occasions
>I had hybrid Nepenthes which eventually grew into the "palm tree" form.
>This
>form is a bare woody stem about 25 cm tall topped with a rosette of
>leaves and
>the growth tip. Very ugly in my opinion. Being fed up with this, I
>lopped off
>the entire top of each plant and rooted it. What was left of each
>original
>hybrid was the bare woody stem sticking straight up out of the pot.
>
>Within a week I saw green buds appear along the entire stem of each
>plant.
>Eventually the woody stems produced a lot of growth and the plants
>recovered
>into beautiful specimens. This occurred without any chemical additives.
>
>Also I've lopped the top off of other Nepenthes vines that had not
>achieved
>the "palm tree" form, just to make more rooted cuttings. Invariably
>these
>plants sprouted one or two new vines just below the cut. This new
>growth
>occurred without any chemical additives.
***((((Perry, I regularly take cuttings off of my plants, and I agree that
the multiple sprouting of dormant buds can occur without chemicals. My
point was that it occurred on 100% of the plants (4) that were cut. The
occurrence is no doubt a result of the high concentration of cytokinins,
auxins and gibberlins.
***(((For example, I have used "Kiki-Paste" on Nepenthes and it will cause
the sprouting of a dormant but WITHOUT cutting the plant. I don't
particularly like using it because you need to be very careful when
handling it. The point is, Nepenthes growers know that sometimes dormant
buds sprout for no reason without chemicals....yet with KiKi-paste it is a
sure thing. I also must mention that the true benefit of Nitrozyme has not
been the multiple sprouting nodes, but more the violent growth acceleration
it has caused.)))***
>
>So the phenomenon that Marc is describing can happen without chemical
>additives. Maybe Nitrozyme can make it happen faster--I don't know.
>But it is interesting, and obviously it has gotten the attention of
>other growers besides me:
>
Marc I. Burack
marcb@companionfinancial.com
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