So this is the first year I've lived in an apartment and had to use the refrigerator method for my VFTs dormancy and I made two lazy mistakes that screwed me up a little bit. I have them in a tupperware in sphagnum with copper based antifungal spay which looks fine and I keep them in a mini fridge at 43 degrees. My first mistake was that right after I dug them up I wanted to ease them into dormancy by sticking them in a window for a couple weeks. One day I went to check on them, realized that the Tupperware created a greenhouse effect so it was super warm inside, so I took the lid off and forgot about it for a day and a half which dried everything out and killed/crisped up the leaves of the ones not buried in spagnum, which I figured wasn't a big deal cause I was gonna probably trim them off anyway and the rhizomes still looked perfectly healthy. Fast forward a couple weeks, I've been checking on them every few days and things look good, notice the sphagnum is a little dry so I spray it down a little bit and then pop it back in the fridge and go home for Christmas for a week. I get back and check on them and it looks like I overdid the moisture, no mold but the stuff that had been dried up is now nasty mushy rotten shit and it's spreading to some of the rhizomes. I immediately trimmed off all the black stuff, gave it a serious wash in water and used a toothbrush to scrub off all the soggy material and let the sphagnum dry out a good bit before putting everything back. Is there anything else I can dobro prevent further die off? Luckily as far as I can tell the only ones effected were the larger typical plants I had, most of the cultivars were in the deeper layers and look good, but it's still a bummer.
Submitted December 30, 2015 at 10:30AM by Fattybitchtits http://ift.tt/1NV953q SavageGarden
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