Re: abnormal flowers

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.03.30 at 03:52:37(4273) Hi Claire, I have seen abnormal blooms on Spathi`s but generally in commercially grown (and sprayed?) hybrids. Have you had them for a long time, and they have never done tis before??? Are they store-bought or wild collected species?? The hybrids sometimes produce double spathes, no spathes, double or forked spadices, all kinds of deformities. I don`t know if it`s the breeding, OR the sprays to make them all bloom together, or fungicides or what it may be. Hope this helps, Cheers, Julius +More ju-bo@msn.com>Hello, Recently we found some abnormal Spathiphyllum flowers in our greenhouse. Some are smaller then usually; others have a normal size, but lack a spathe and instead there is a little of white amorph tissue. The same plant has normal and abnormal flowers. The only thing that we changed during culture, is fumigation with Bladafume against thrips. Does someone have a hypothesis for these abnormal flowers? Thank you, Claire Piette Claire.Piette@rug.ac.be<

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