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Re: [SANS] stunting

Hi all,

Sorry I am reproducing Steve´s comments, so that there will be no doubt that 
he actually said them.  They were copied and pasted from his postings.
Steve wrote:

Is there a name for this stunting phenomenon? Could we call it the "Bonsai
Effect"?
The stunting in Sansevieria trifasciata 'Hahnii' is a result of the plant
being a perpetual juvenile forming only cataphylls and never the adult
leaves

Juan says:
Sansevieria trifasciata 'Hahnii' is NOT a stunted form of S. trifasciata.

Steve's definition of stunting in his own words:
Stunting by under potting, under fertilizing and root pruning to maintain
juvenile forms is a practice used for a wide variety of plants not just
Sansevieria. Is that not one of the purposes of Bonsai?

Juan says
One cannot get the former from the latter by stunting.
S.t. 'Hahnii' is a sport, a neoteny that occurs spontaneously and cannot be 
obtained by overcrowding the pot. Yes, it has happened again and again, but 
not by crowding the mother plant.

Steve wrote:
Sansevieria canaliculata 'Dwarf' would then be a stunted dwarf not a juvenile.

Juan says:
S.c.'Dwarf' was a spontaneous form, NOT obtained by stunting. 
I doubt very much that a commercial enterprise as Abbey Garden would have 
tried to stunt plants they received from Heidelberg.

Again, I disagree with your personal comments.

cheers,
Juan
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