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Quote[/b] (Outsiders71 @ Jan. 07 2007,6:17)]Bah!!!
VTF's aren't made for terraniums or tropical conditions! They are made for full sun, outdoor wetness! This also includes a time to go dormant and rest!
Keeping a VFT inside a terranium will only produce weak plants with the tendency to rot from too much humidity!
If you have good lighting and good air circulation, Don't see why someone can't grow indoors if they give it a dormancy.
High humidity isn't bad. Stagnant air and hight humidity is. Add low light to that equation and soon you'll have a lovely mold farm lol
As for the asian growers not giving a dormancy, you must realize that they grow them as fast as they can and sell them as fast as they can. High light, humidity, and pressurized co2 can be wonderous for a few years, but just like steroids in humans it is not a permanent fix. You've got to stop and rest eventually. The more plants these companies sell, the more die and the more people get to buy more. It's a cycle of profit and thus is the wonderous invention of TC and mass marketed "novelty" plants.
You have pretty much a whole team of growers telling you the way to keep the plant alive and you won't listen. Is it REALLY that painfull to stick it in the fridge for a few months? Amino acids aren't going to be a replacement for dormancy, sorry. You can do what you are doing and hope for the best but without a dormancy it's going to die. A person can't stay away forever and keep going and going and going and a plant that has evolved to have dormancy can't skip it for too many consecutive years.
Amino acids are fine and well but I feel that you aren't getting the point. A normal plant does not need them, just as a normal person does not need hormones at the age of 17. If your plant will not grow normally without it then there is a problem and you need to fix the problem instead of putting a band-aid on it and hoping for the best even though everyone else is telling you what to do. Now you want to give it phenylalanine to make it red.. are you serious?
Let's look at a human example of what we are doing to our poor little plant.
Stacy want's to stay awake so she does meth every day. Now she doesn't have to sleep! Afterall, she's missing out on a third of her LIFE when she sleeps!
Stacy wants a tan, so now all she eats is Diet coke, which contains Phenylalanine, and carrots which contain beta carotene. I suppose some brown dye number 2 couldn't hurt TOO much either.
Stacy wants to get rock-hard abs and grow big and strong, so she starts taking intramuscular testosterone injections.
Stacy died a year later. When she passed she looked like the crypt-keeper.