nep deformation and pitchers

From: Christer Berglund (christer.berglund@amiga.pp.se)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 10:11:57 PST 

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:11:57 +0100
From: Christer Berglund <christer.berglund@amiga.pp.se>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg379$foo@default>
Subject: nep deformation and pitchers

Hi People,

I've read in the book Savage Garden (section about tissue culture) that
it's common for nepenthes grown on to much cytokinin to suffer from
deformation, like gnarled shoots or profusion of axillary buds. Now I
wonder if a plant with this problem is damaged permanently, or if it in
time will return to normal growth?

I have a N. singalana which behaved a little strange some time ago.
At first it grew some nice pitchers, but on the next two leaves the
pitcher development stopped. Then the plant grew some more leaves with
pitchers. Suddenly about one month later, the "dormant" tendril of one
of the older leaves developed a pitcher. It was minute
compared to all the others, but still... Anyone else encountered
"delayed" pitcher development?
 
Regards, 

-- 
Christer Berglund
E-mail: christer.berglund@amiga.pp.se

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