From: Jane Sargent Re: unhappy Boweia. Oh, Shmuel, I can torture Boweias even better. I had 3 potted Boweias, one about 2" in diameter and two about 3" in diameter, in pots in my kitchen 3 months ago. Then I had a health emergency and was in another city for nearly 3 months with the house plants abandoned. When I returned, the Boweias were gone, vanished, including their pots. After 3 weeks of looking, I found them today, presumably where some helpful person had put them during my absence. They were outdoors (!) in a steel wheelbarrow full of water. When I say "full," picture just the little scalps of two of these plants sticking out of the water, with the plants 90% submerged. The third plant was completely under water. They must have been there for at least 3 weeks, perhaps a lot longer. They remained firm, not mushy, and at least half of each bulb was the usual waxy green. None was sprouted, but they weren´t sprouted 3 months ago, either. The two larger ones fell out of their pot onto the ground while I was fishing them out, they unpotted themselves, and their roots were white and good-looking. These are desert plants, right? Well, I´ve repotted them with drainage, and I bet they make it, in spite of their masquerade as water lilies. Once it took me about twelve years to kill a Boweia. That last 15 months with no water whatsoever did the trick, when the plant was abandoned in an unused dwelling . Before that, ordinary neglect seemed to have no effect. Shmuel, I bet your Boweia does well. This plant is about half zombie. Jane Sargent On 11/10/2016 07:51 a. m., pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote: > Send pbs mailing list submissions to > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pbs-owner@lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." > > > List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: PBS website contact:///Amoreuxia/ wrightii (Jane McGary) > 2. Boweia volubilis emergency! (Shmuel Silinsky) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:58:28 -0700 > From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Subject: [pbs] Fwd: PBS website contact:///Amoreuxia/ wrightii > Message-ID: <7e2309f0-c05f-9ec0-672a-9a004f3d15ac@earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > The following inquiry came via the PBS website. Please write directly to > Donna Anderson if you can help her find seeds of this species. > > Thanks, > > Jane McGary > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: PBS website contact:///Amoreuxia/ wrightii > Date: 08 Oct 2016 17:17:23 -0400, Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:17:23 -0400 (EDT) > From: Apache <apache@http://www.ibiblio.org/> > Reply-To: Donna Anderson <perdy@mymts.net> > To: janemcgary@earthlink.net > > > > This is a message from the PBS website for janemcgary. > > Hi, do you know where I could find seeds? > > Thanks! >