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To:
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: SAFE HOMES FOR TROPICAL SHADE PLANTS
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| Hi Rand!
|
| Are you THE major tissue culture fellah? If you are, you got over 21 US
| cultivars I need to buy? Say "Yes"..........PLEASE!
|
| Small, and 25 years old? Rather old, that's an understatement surely?
25
| years...one plant becomes thousands and thousands usually. Is yours
| plastic and you didn't realise?
|
| Yellowing? I can only guess wildly. Is it pot bound and needing root
| systems divided? Has it dried out sometimes so that the flesh can't
| re-constitute and the rot sets in, doubtful. Spaths should NEVER have
| direct sunlight. South West window, my God! If I was a Spath cat
| particularly if I was old and my roots were constipated and blackened with
| trying to survive your catfood, I'd scream "let me out of this pot", and
| when I've spread myself about I'd like a good very dilute feed with trace
| elements between total submersion, only every two weeks mind you, with NOT
| TOO HIGH nitrogen please. Move me back into shade else I'll play dead or
| sceam. Actually maybe I'm just hypochondriac and not sick even after 25
| years in solitary confinement but I'll yellow a few leaves to shock him.
| And I'll flower and fumigate him with my scent so he still wants me and
| doesn't throw me out. Perhaps he'll email Ron and tell him my name but
| maybe he doesn't know that? I do hope he splits me up so there'll be a
lot
| of children and I hope one of 'em will go to Ireland as its good there and
| I'll have millions of European grandchildren. Put my little one's roots
in
| sphagnum and foil, wrap him in todays newspaper and cosset in polythene
film
| from the supermarket. (Have you seen the new upstart Spaths there,
| shocking!). Then put him in a cardboard box and whizz him at the speed of
| light to Erin. Wow! Or I could tell him to send a leaf or two in a
| plastic bag to Unkl Ron and I'll know whether anything is really wrong.
| I'm not old, I need to be great grandchildren that's all. Oh God I hope
he
| does something soon. TWENTY FIVE YEARS in prison and I'm innocent! My
pot
| bottom isn't even in water and if he did that now the ALL the roots would
go
| black and I'd crock. Don't he realise I'm immortal and that all my roots
| should be wet, warm, white with plenty of room. And please keep me out
of
| the sun or bright light or give me double thick Mafia sunglasses. I might
| need a bit of Magnesium or decent trace element supplement especially at
my
| age but don't do anything until I'm out of this pot. But when I'm so
| constipated after 25 years blooming mad for him he complains without
helping
| me properly. Shocking, shocking! I wouldn't be like this in Fairchild
or
| Ireland.
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| Sorry Randy I don't know for sure but send a snippet safely and I might!
Do
| you have CERES or "Mini" or ANY other "common commercial" Spaths in your
| local supermarkets or plant emporia? They are as rare as hens teeth over
| here.
|
| Serious chuckles
|
| Ron
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| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Rand Nicholson"
| To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L"
| Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:11 PM
| Subject: Re: SAFE HOMES FOR TROPICAL SHADE PLANTS
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|
| | Hi Ron:
| | >
| | You wrote:
| |
| | >Spathiphyllum and other aroids, Marantaceae and so many other genera
and
| | >species are stenothermal
| | (snip)
| | >They thrive only in shade not much higher than 25% and commonly less
| | >than 10% of sunlight.
| | (snip)
| | >It is
| | >interesting to observe the unfavourable paling of leaves of
Spathiphyllum
| | >grown in presumably shaded greenhouses in May to those even in
February.
| | >Observations of Peace Lilies and other "good" house plants in equitable
| | >homes suggest they thrive in astonishingly deeper shade than those
| | >recommended by greenhouse producers of un-naturally forced cultivars".
| | >
| | Will you elaborate upon this phenomenon of "leaf paling", please. I
| | have a small, rather old (25 + yrs) Spathiphyllum that has recently
| | exhibited this "paling" effect. It had been moved to under a
| | south-west window where it receives very little direct sun, perhaps a
| | couple of hours, per day. It usually blooms foolishly year long,
| | giving off a delightful cinnamon scent from its white spathes. It
| | seems to bloom less with the move.
| |
| | Kind Regards,
| |
| | Rand Nicholson
| |
| | (Who had two A. konjacs bloom in succession in his living room
| | because they broke dormancy early before they could be planted
| | outside in Maritime Canada, East Coast. Friends and relatives were
| | not delighted when they made a close inspection of the blooms, which
| | all agreed were beautiful from a distance, if unusual and, somehow,
| | slightly disturbing.)
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