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From: zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Anyone out there?
Message-ID: <834@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Oct-83 00:09:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 22 00:09:08 1983
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Yeah, I've been listening for what seems like years to nothing but void.
This gives me a good excuse to ask a question that I've been wond'ring
about for awhile: I got this arbitrarily-chosen spider plant at a local
plant show (it was real cheap) and since produced lots of generations of
babies and grandbabies, etc from it. It does something peculiar (I haven't
seen any other spiders do this) when it drops a line of flowers and babies:
after the main stem starts to grow again, it has split into two growing 
tips, each acting like its own plant (each producing babies and all) and
doing its own dividing after a batch of babies. This plant now has about
32 growing tips on it, and is *really* huge. It manages to stay upright
by virtue of its breadth from the splits. Also, its offspring seem to have
inherited this characteristic. Has anybody encountered this? I'm curious.

Also, for anyone still reading -- I've got to move my plants from my
office to my dorm room (where it stays dark enough to sleep during the
day). What is the best arrangement to set up for a grow-light in a
room with, oh, about a 12-foot ceiling? I've heard arguments for both direct,
distanced lighting and for reflected-from-ceiling lighting. What's better?

				Thanks,

				 -Mike

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