[Aroid-l] rescuing a skimpy cutting

From: REDRAGON40 at aol.com on 2009.03.09 at 21:31:42(19176) Hi everyone: I am new to this list and I'm not sure whether the text of my request to Mr. Weeks was shown to anyone yet, so please excuse me if this is a repeat. I am not an aroid hobbyist, but for many years I had tried to locate a variety of philodendron that I had in the sixties. I succeeded in finding one straggly one last year in a store that has since gone out of business, and I was nursing it along. I was recently in the hospital, and lost the whole plant except for one spindly stem with one leaf. I desparately need some advice on how to save it, since none of the greenhouses or horticulturists around here have ever heard of it. Right now I have it suspended with the stem joint under water and the single leaf sticking out of the water. It was called a blushing pholodendron when I first had it, - just a standard heart shaped leaf, but with a red underside and the upper surface extremely finely beaded so it looks satiny rather than shiny. Do you have any members that I could contact or any advice about how to save this poor little remnant? ( rooting procedure, fertilizer, best soil type, etc) It would be heartbreaking to me to lose it. It must be a rather hard to grow variety, because it didn't grow much at all, whereas the standard philodendron on the same shelf grew like crazy. Would setting up a small terrarium for it be a good idea or would it make it rot? Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Carol Ross HTML +More A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! -------------------------------1236634302----==============%28364253716731771=

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