On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:11:33 GMT, "J Fortuna"
wrote:

But repotting is a pain in
the back for me.

Joanna


That much I will agree with. You have so few that you worry over
them like a mother hen. I learned to repot helping an older
society member. I got the back bulbs for all the Catts we
repotted. In that one weekend I went from 10 plants to 50.

To do that many plants you can not worry. You go in and pull out
the squishy roots. He did not believe in clippers when you could
snap off the dry dead leaves or spikes. You could pull off the
rotten roots and not have a pair of clippers or a knife or blade
to sterilize. Such a fuss. And that was in the days when we
kept the clippers in a supper saturated solution of TSP.

Now no matter how you keep them someone will tell you that way
will not kill virus. Remember you are providing artificial
habitat for this plant - it is used to roughing it. You will be
nicer to it than the wild would be. A bad root or good one in
the trash should not be enough to bother it.
SuE
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