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Quote (schloaty @ Feb. 28 2003,9:45)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Gotta add my 2 cents, too.
I have mine on the tray method for the summer.
I used Darcie's method for my VFTs durring their dormancy. Seems like it worked. Keeps the soil just moist.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Thanks. Glad it worked....
And I keep my plant in about 1/2cm water during the summer letting is dry slightly weekly. I'm sure their are many ways that work, mine is just the cautious meathoid, and of corse, red dragons always need a little extra care. Oh yah, and I don't use fungiside, so it's more importent to regulate conditions
(If I were to get any more nerotic about my plants I'd have to put in moisture gadges, and I do have personal resons for dislikeing blanket tray meathoids. I lost my first two plants that way and was only told after their death about how the pots need to dry off a little and how stagnent water is bad(specially if you have no live sphagnum))
I just try to give the most compleat growing instructions possible without barking at people to go buy lights to shine on their plant (something that is a pain and not everyone will want to do). And of corse, in this proticular thred, I was addressing a plant showing the classic "I can't take the water" symptoms, in addition to that, we are talking about a red dragon, a plant that requires much much more light to handle the same amount of water as other plants without dieing, but a typical plant will grow well in the dragons conditions too, which is why I figure, if you have to do it for a week plant, you should be doing it for a strong plant, lol
Oh yah, and I also am a big fan of using live sphagnum as a conditions indicator. Chances are, if it is happy, so is the VFT. My sphagnum usually spoors once every week or two and each strand grows about 1 inch per year after it's origenal growth spurt of about 1 inch in 2 months (only counting long lived fleshy part, not the short term reproductive organs). From what I have heard, thats fairly good, right?
hee hee, I remember my first sprig bit fondly. It was stuck next to the vft for the heck of it by the grower (asked in an e-mail). I was actually more worried about killing my sprout then the vft, lol. Then one day it made a spoor head and when it dried and dabbed it againced the soil in hopes of babies. I was so excited when they came, by the next year they had taken over the pot. Now, I collect the spoor head for other pots and the little 1inch green heads conseal a tangle of dead peat being made. Sorry, I got nestelgic their.