summers@ihuxk.UUCP (10/18/83)
Is anybody out there? This seems to be a rather dead net. What areas of gardening does it cover? Are there any indoor gardeners out there? Orchidomaniacs? Saintpaulia Fanatics? Gloxinia Fiends? Winter Bulb Forcing Fans? Amaryllis Admirers? How about good cures for mealybugs? Growing under artificial lights? Favorite Fertilizers? Good mail order suppliers? Or is this net used solely during the growing season for tips on rhubarb and rutabagas (sp?). To get the ball rolling I have a question for the net audience. My dwarf calomondin orange tree which was doing really well last winter indoors and enjoyed a nice summer outdoors was recently brought back inside before it got its first frosting. Unfortunately I neglected to bring it in before it did receive a few nights in the upper/mid 30s. Now a great deal of its leaves are turning yellow and falling off. Is this due to the shock that it may have received or is it due to the lesser amount of light that it now recieves (it is in a east window). Only the leaves that are in the lower and middle parts of the branches are dying the ones near the growing tips are apparently ok. Does anyone know what I can do besides watch my tree act like a maple and shed all of its leaves? Bob Summers !ihnp4!ihuxk!summers -- Robert L. Summers Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois 60566 (312) 979-1649 ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxk!summers
zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik) (10/22/83)
Yeah, I've been listening for what seems like years to nothing but void. This gives me a good excuse to ask a question that I've been wond'ring about for awhile: I got this arbitrarily-chosen spider plant at a local plant show (it was real cheap) and since produced lots of generations of babies and grandbabies, etc from it. It does something peculiar (I haven't seen any other spiders do this) when it drops a line of flowers and babies: after the main stem starts to grow again, it has split into two growing tips, each acting like its own plant (each producing babies and all) and doing its own dividing after a batch of babies. This plant now has about 32 growing tips on it, and is *really* huge. It manages to stay upright by virtue of its breadth from the splits. Also, its offspring seem to have inherited this characteristic. Has anybody encountered this? I'm curious. Also, for anyone still reading -- I've got to move my plants from my office to my dorm room (where it stays dark enough to sleep during the day). What is the best arrangement to set up for a grow-light in a room with, oh, about a 12-foot ceiling? I've heard arguments for both direct, distanced lighting and for reflected-from-ceiling lighting. What's better? Thanks, -Mike genrad!mit-eddie!zzz (UUCP) ZZZ%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC (ARPA)