A. bulbifer question

From: "newton" newton at coiinc.com> on 2000.09.01 at 01:29:13(5320) Dear fellow aroiders: It has been HOT in the upper Midwest this past week. Not the 120 southwest hot but the 95 with 98% humidity hot. Just thinking about it makes me sweat. Anyway, in one of my daring trips outside to save the lives, just in the nick of time, of my various greens, I noticed that my 2" dia. A. bulbifer is sending up a small shoot from the base of the leaf. While I find that nothing new in the way of aroid behavior surprises me anymore, I had not yet seen this event from this plant. Q: How common is this behavior? Plenty of pot space, mild fertilizer and full sun. I do see where Aroideana states leaf can be in pairs. Does it NEED this new leaf? Will I develop a larger bulb if I prune the new growth? Will the Cubs ever do any better? Tim

From: Carol Ann Bonner cadastra at mindspring.com> on 2000.09.01 at 15:16:04(5322) At 08:29 PM 8/31/00 -0500, Tim wrote: > I noticed that my 2" dia. A. bulbifer is >sending up a small shoot from the base of the leaf. While I find that >nothing new in the way of aroid behavior surprises me anymore, I had not yet >seen this event from this plant. > >Q: How common is this behavior? I don't know. +More >Plenty of pot space, mild fertilizer and >full sun. I do see where Aroideana states leaf can be in pairs. Does it NEED >this new leaf? I don't know. >Will I develop a larger bulb if I prune the new growth? I don't know. >Will the Cubs ever do any better? Only if they move to Nashville, whereupon they will win the Pennant. Actually, I also have an A. bulbifer question. I am not exactly what one would call an "aroidiphile", but I have a few aroids, A. bulbifer among them. This is my first season with this plant, and, true to its name, it made a little bulbil at the center of its leaf. Do I plant this thing? If so, do I carve away all of the attached leaf? When do I know when to stop carving? If it's too young this year, will the bulbil next year be viable? Is there an archive of this list? Thanks in advance, Carol Ann Nashville, home of the Titans

From: Al Wootten awootten at NRAO.EDU> on 2000.09.01 at 19:11:02(5325) Carol Ann Bonner writes: > Actually, I also have an A. bulbifer question. I am not exactly what one > would call an "aroidiphile", but I have a few aroids, A. bulbifer among > them. This is my first season with this plant, and, true to its name, it > made a little bulbil at the center of its leaf. Do I plant this thing? If > so, do I carve away all of the attached leaf? When do I know when to stop > carving? If it's too young this year, will the bulbil next year be viable? With mine, as the plant begins to die down, I just snap it off and plant it. My young bulbifers, bulbils year before last, have just died back. They have not produced bulbils themselves. My older bigger bulbifers are just now emerging. If I extrapolate backward in time, I figure that they must have begun emerging from their corms at just about the time Wilbert so agreeably ordered them to arise. Still no sign of konjac, though... Clear skies, Al +More +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Al Wootten, Slacktide, Sturgeon Creek at the Rappahannock| |Astronomer (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | |genealogy homepage http://members.tripod.com/~astral | |Deltaville, Virginia (804)776-6369 | +---------------------------------------------------------+

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.09.03 at 01:46:12(5329) >Will I develop a larger bulb if I prune the new growth? No. Laeves produce energy that assists the tuber formation, leave it alone! >Actually, I also have an A. bulbifer question. I am not exactly what one would call an "aroidiphile", but I have a few aroids, A. bulbifer among them. This is my first season with this plant, and, true to its name, it made a little bulbil at the center of its leaf. Do I plant this thing? If so, do I carve away all of the attached leaf? When do I know when to stop carving? If it's too young this year, will the bulbil next year be viable?< Leave the bulbil alone till the leaf withers, and then plant it with the 'bottom' side up, in otherwords with the attachment point which is concave UP. When the plant is large/mature enough, it will produce larger bulbils, and more, some at the juncture of the various leaf segments. >Is there an archive of this list?< Yes, but someone else needs to tell you how to acess them! >Thanks in advance, Carol Ann +More Nashville, home of the Titans< Cheers and good growing, Julius

From: Durightmm at aol.com on 2000.09.03 at 02:22:36(5332) A.bulbifer is one of several amorphs to use this strategy to multiply. The wall cells weaken and collapse the petolie setting the bulbils away from the "mother" plant as a way of propigation. It is called motility. You can collect the , sometimes numerous, bulbils, store them and plant them next year if you wish. Note that often the one at the center of the leaf is misshappen. If you plant them all in time you will have a forest. Good growing Joe

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 2000.09.05 at 02:10:58(5338) Carol Ann, The aroid-l newslist is archived on the International Aroid Society's (IAS) web page at: www.aroid.org Here on main page you will see a link to aroid-l, go there and scroll down the information on this page and you will find a link to the archives near the bottom. This is a very good resource and I believe contains all the archived messages since 1996. You can search the archives in several ways to retrieve topics or threads of interest. You may also find many topics by searching the IAS web site. There is an ever-increasing array of information posted on the site. Hope this helps, Donna Atwood +More << >Is there an archive of this list?< Yes, but someone else needs to tell you how to acess them! >Thanks in advance, Carol Ann >>

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