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Old 14-06-2007, 02:56 PM posted to rec.gardens.orchids
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Default Plants recognise their siblings

On Jun 13, 5:50 pm, wrote:

when three to five
siblings from the same capsule are planted in compot inevitably one or
two grow rapidly larger and more vigorously while one or two lag
behind to the point of being crowded to death. When the larger
siblings are removed from the community pots and the smaller ones are
regrouped into similar sized grouping and replanted into compots,
inevitably one or more of them suddenly grows larger and starts
crowding out others.


this happens in my pots of baby amaryllii also.

--j_a