Gailey

Thank you to all of you who have offered me advice. Since I last posted, I have contacted a colleague who is a professor of entomology about the centipede issue. He confirmed that they are strictly carnivores. So although they may not be eating away at Maurelii's roots, maybe there is some other critter in there that is.

He is very interested to meet the centipedes to see if they are native to this area or to see if they came in with the plant from somewhere far south of us here in Alberta.

So in the next little while, I am going to bring the poor thing downstairs, ready to go outside as soon as weather allows. I will re-pot him in clean potting mix and I think I will start by cutting him down part way, rather than the more drastic method also under consideration.

So that's plan A. If that doesn't work, then I will seriously consider slicing off the stem at the base and follow the steps carried out by another poster to this board.

I'll post again when I can put up some pictures.

Warm regards from chilly Calgary - where there is snow on the ground!