Found the person. :0)

My intent isn't to make you look stupid or inexperienced. My intent is to point out that others would be less disappointed if they don't put the same amount of faith in a humidity tray (HT) that you do. HTs might make some degree of difference, but it's certainly not going to be significant. Maybe, if a number of plants were grouped together and over HTs, you might be able to gain something of a benefit from the grouping, but one plant - one humidity tray, could only play a very minor part in warding off brown tips. When it comes to growing, people are often very poor at relating cause and effect. I'm not singling you out - it's a fact. If you were misting regularly, you'd probably swear it was the misting that was warding off the brown tips, which would also be in error. If you stop and think about it for just a second, I think you'll agree that it takes a combination of a number of favorable factors to produce a plant with pristine or even good looking foliage. BECAUSE it takes a combination of factors, it's no more logical to say it's the result of the HT than it is to say it's the result of any one of: a favorable soil, favorable light, nutrition the plant likes, the right temps, lack of insect predation or disease ..... I'd favor good genetics over a HT any day. If you think it makes a difference, then that's great for you. I'm simply not convinced and wanted to share why. Al

Hypocyrta and Nematanthus used to be 2 separate genera, the difference being that Nematanthus had flowers on long thread-like pedicels ("nematanthus" means "thread flower"). But the two genera were combined in the 1970's, and the older name of the two (Nematanthus) is now used for all the species, even though the name isn't really apropos for all of them now. So yes, all hypocyrtas are now Nematanthus, but not all Nematanthus are former hypocyrtas!

Hi Katti and welcome back! Its always nice to see familiar faces! as far as books go, of course there are those mentionned above, and I know Mrs. Burton is working also on one (a couple of hundred of pages if I remember well) and I had at some point heard that Mr. Liddle *might* be working on one as well. There are as well a couple of articles, translations of articles, etc. going around, if you're interested e-mail me and I'll see what I can find. One thing though (quite personal) is that I bought one of the books sold by rainbowgardens (I can't remember which), but I thought that every subject , or almost, was already covered in deeper detail elsewhere (this forum, othres, personal sites, etc). So personally, I don't think it would be worthwhile buying it now (it's some 10-20 years old) because there is so much more information and pictures nowadays that you can find elsewhere, for free. But that's just my 2 cents.