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Venus flytrap/Dionea Muscipula

John Margetts john at jmargetts.fslife.co.uk
Sun Oct 6 21:52:20 EST 2002


Three months in the fridge (in the dark!) will kill most plants.  The
freezer will take it down to -18 degrees C - why?  They don't grow in the
Arctic Circle, do they?

Why not be nice to it and see how it does.
--
John

"Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer you want me
to, Oh well." - Peter Green

"Morten Gulev" <morteng at oncable.dk> wrote in message
news:3da080e7$0$91436$edfadb0f at dspool01.news.tele.dk...
> Hello group
>
> I am new to your newsgroup, so I hope I have found the right place :-)
>
> I have a venus flytrap, as I have had many times before.  However, I have
> never been able to make it survive until spring.  I have tried to slowly
> stop watering it na dputting it in the fridge for three months, but when I
> introduce it to  spring weather again, the rhizome rots.
>
> I have read that I can take the rhizome out, klip all the leaves off, dip
it
> in a fungicide and then put it in the frezzer.  That all seems a little
> extravagant.  Does anyone have any good "simple" advice on what to do?
>
> Thanx, Morten
>
>





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