Nov
27
2008
New Roommates
Author: DavidIt’s been over a month already since the last entry! Where has time gone? Thanksgiving is tomorrow (well, today considering it’s currently 3:35AM as I write this sentence). Nonetheless, it doesn’t mean that nothing has happened.
Over the last month, we were hit with a pretty sudden cold front. Having not been properly prepared for the event, the plants got to experience their first cold breeze for this year. Some of them were triggered into going into early dormancy. The ones that have gone to sleep for now are sitting in a box with other species that I had delievered over the time between the last entry and now (more on them some other time, perhaps spring when they’re waking up). The rest, after quickly placing an order for a small room heater, are now happily sitting in the guest bedroom to spend their winter vacation. Although the cool breeze did shake some up a bit, they seem back to normal.
On a positive note, and although I will get to the rest some other entry soon, I did get my hands on an Amorphophallus dactylifer. I mention this particular one because shortly after receving it, it has begun to come out of dormancy. However, so far it’s been growing quite fast but has no roots; my assumption here is that I might actually get a flower for winter! I’m not completely sure about that yet, but I will know in about a week for sure exactly what it’s doing.
There’s also a bulbifer (also one of the recent readditions to the family) that is also doing similar to the A.dactylifer. So in the end, I may not get one but TWO flowers next month. If this is what is happening, December should be a pretty exciting year for me as it’ll be the first (and maybe second) time that I get a flower since I moved.
That’s it for this update; just a quick note of how things are going and that I haven’t forgotten about this blog. Look out for an entry sometime next month for details about my recent set of aquisitions. Other than that, have a nice Thanksgiving!
