hardiness of Amorphophallus konjac

From: Diana Reeck dianar at teleport.com> on 2000.08.05 at 21:55:57(5238) Thanks to everyone who helped me with the hardiness of Sauromatum venosum - Here's another one I have a question about - Amorphophallus konjac - Any input is appreciated. Thanks. Diana +More COLLECTOR'S NURSERY 16804 NE 102nd Ave Battle Ground, WA 98604 Bill Janssen/Diana Reeck http://www.collectorsnursery.com Our year 2000 catalog in now on-line

From: Steve Marak samarak at arachne.uark.edu> on 2000.08.06 at 02:12:26(5239) Pretty much the same story as with Sauromatum - quite hardy here in NW Arkansas, nominally USDA zone 6. We've been warmer than normal the last 3 years or so (so much so that even Gloriosa survived outside last winter), but I've been growing these for nearly 15 years now and they've survived overnight lows of -25 C and several days of sub-freezing weather. As with most aroids, they seem able to "move" by one mechanism or another to whatever depth they prefer, and konjac seems to like it a bit deeper than Sauromatum - maybe 10-15 cm for smaller tubers, a little more for larger. They are later to break dormancy for me, early June this year. Many people have remarked on the tendancy of konjac to grow ever-larger tubers year by year until some magic point is reached, and the large tuber becomes several (I've seen up to 5 or so) smaller tubers, and mine do this outdoors as well as in the greenhouse. I grow it in full sun; it produces leaves up to a meter or so high with petioles maybe 3-4 cm in diameter, but I've seen much larger specimens other places. I don't know if that's just the size this clone reaches, or if the relatively high light keeps it compact. I'd love to try some of the dwarf/giant clones for comparison. Steve +More On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Diana Reeck wrote: > Here's another one I have a question about - Amorphophallus konjac - -- Steve Marak -- samarak@arachne.uark.edu

From: Dean Sliger deanslgr at juno.com> on 2000.08.06 at 02:13:08(5241) Same as before: perfectly hardy here. Dean Sliger +More Warren, Michigan, USA Zone 6B On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:55:58 -0500 (CDT) Diana Reeck writes: > Thanks to everyone who helped me with the hardiness of Sauromatum > venosum - > > Here's another one I have a question about - Amorphophallus konjac > - > > Any input is appreciated. Thanks. > > > Diana > > > COLLECTOR'S NURSERY > 16804 NE 102nd Ave > Battle Ground, WA 98604 > Bill Janssen/Diana Reeck > > http://www.collectorsnursery.com > Our year 2000 catalog in now on-line > >

From: "Marge Talt" mtalt at clark.net> on 2000.08.06 at 18:02:56(5243) Diana, It has survived outside in my garden for the last four winters - admittedly relatively mild ones, but temps have stayed in the low teens at night to highs in the low 20s (F) for a couple of weeks during them. It is in a protected spot at the base of an east facing bank and autumn leaves pile up there and are left where they fall. It is very late to emerge - June, I think, just when I've given up on it. Never has bloomed, but this year, three stems are up in place of the normally single one. I am in cold zone 7 - USDA map says 6b, but I don't agree, given some of the plants that winter over for me with little effort. +More Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland mtalt@clark.net Editor: Gardening in Shade ----------------------------------------------- Current Article: Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 4, Hydrangeas Part 1 http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/222 ------------------------------------------------ Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html ------------------------------------------------ All Suite101.com garden topics : http://www.suite101.com/category.cfm/gardening ---------- > From: Diana Reeck > Date: Saturday, August 05, 2000 5:56 PM > > Thanks to everyone who helped me with the hardiness of Sauromatum venosum - > > Here's another one I have a question about - Amorphophallus konjac - > > Any input is appreciated. Thanks. > > > Diana > > > COLLECTOR'S NURSERY > 16804 NE 102nd Ave > Battle Ground, WA 98604 > Bill Janssen/Diana Reeck > > http://www.collectorsnursery.com > Our year 2000 catalog in now on-line

From: Lester Kallus lkallus at earthlink.net> on 2000.08.06 at 18:03:49(5244) I live on Long Island in what's supposed to be 7a but seems to be a tad colder. I try to bring my konjacs in every year because by giving them an earlier start than they'd do outside, I get larger plants (or at least I tell myself that I do). Despite that, I always seem to miss a few tubers or offsets outside. For the past 3 years, I've found konjacs coming up all over the place in the yard; perhaps spread by the rototiller. Anyway, they do seem to be reliably hardy here on LI. Les +More At 04:56 PM 8/5/00 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks to everyone who helped me with the hardiness of Sauromatum venosum - > >Here's another one I have a question about - Amorphophallus konjac - > >Any input is appreciated. Thanks. > > >Diana > > >COLLECTOR'S NURSERY >16804 NE 102nd Ave >Battle Ground, WA 98604 >Bill Janssen/Diana Reeck > >http://www.collectorsnursery.com >Our year 2000 catalog in now on-line

From: Brian Brady citromatic at yahoo.com> on 2000.08.07 at 05:17:36(5248) Those wacky konjacs. I'm about to try some outdoors since I'm now knee deep in bulblets. I'm in Seattle, and here in the city we get one or two light frosts per winter and rarely below 30 degrees F. My big konjac started out grapefruit size and put up a stunning 3-foot petiole. The cat pulled down the blinds and snapped off the trunk, and now a week later I found a new shoot deep in the pot! Also found zillions of bulblets here & there too. I'm wondering if I have a new "replacement" petiole coming or a bloom... Any thoughts? Regards, Brian Brady +More Seattle, WA USA

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.