RE: SHOW: Transporting blooms - sledgehammer method
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- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:43:14 -0600 (MDT)
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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 1:05 PM
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Subject: Re: SHOW: Transporting blooms - sledgehammer method
> was crushed to find all of them drooping and looking very sad, indeed.
> Evidently I had clogged the vascular bundles in the stems with sand so they
> couldn't take up water. After I cut the stems again and put them in clean
> water, some of them perked up enough to be presentable. I figured if I ever
> tried this again, I'd poke stem-sized holes in the sand with a pencil or
> something similar. But I've never actually tried it since. Besides, there's
> all that weight...
What was their fate in the show?
Would having a pencil sized hole prevent sand from getting into the
flower? I assume you shoved the stem down into the sand rather than
pre-making the hole for it.
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Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
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I didn't mean to wait so long to answer--sorry. Yes, I think the sand plugged
the stems when I shoved tthem into it, so pre-making the holes should prevent
that. These particular AACHEN ELFs didn't do too well, since they looked a
little pooped, but that's okay. I show them as a collection every year, and
some years they take best of section, other years nothing.
Barb, in Santa Fe, with an afternoon thunderstorm passing through
