Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds

From: ". ." iamwhatiam52 at hotmail.com> on 2002.04.26 at 03:27:06(8643) Taylor, After watching this tuber for a few more weeks, there are DEFINITELY four large and three small buds, all sprouting vigorously. No "dominant" bud. Has anyone had experience with this? Does anyone know if allowing several buds to grow will result in my prized Goliath tuber splitting into multiple little Davids? +More Mitch Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Subject: Re: Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:18:40 -0500 (CDT) Mitch, they are tubers... There is a dominant bud that normally keeps the others from growing! I don't think you would have multiple shoots (leafs) on one tuber!! you should have just the one big tuber!1 But who knows it will take its own course! Hope this would help and have fun growing Taylor Hyndman on 4/15/02 11:00 AM, . . at iamwhatiam52@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > I have a thirty pound A. konjac bulb (tuber? corm?) whose flowering tip was > damaged. It now has half a dozen growing tips emerging. I am concerned > that if they are all allowed to grow, I will end up with many smaller bulbs > instead of one huge one. Would cutting out all but one bud prevent this? > Any experts out there have some advice for me? > Mitch Alvo > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world?s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

From: "Petra Schmidt" petra at plantdelights.com> on 2002.04.26 at 15:03:00(8646) Hey Mitch, Hey Taylor... I've been slicing and dicing Amorph. tubers so I'll say, go ahead and cut that tuber into a few pieces, let it dry off for a few weeks and then plant them all...each piece will form its own nice new tuber by the end of the season; just make sure the pieces you cut are still large enough to support this season's growth...if you leave the tuber alone, meaning with all accessory buds attached and growing, chances are good that the one large tuber will split apart and you'll have more, smaller tubers at the end of the season. Petra +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:27 PM Subject: Re: Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds > Taylor, > After watching this tuber for a few more weeks, there are DEFINITELY four > large and three small buds, all sprouting vigorously. No "dominant" bud. > > Has anyone had experience with this? Does anyone know if allowing several > buds to grow will result in my prized Goliath tuber splitting into multiple > little Davids? > > Mitch > > > From: Taylor Hyndman > Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org > To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L > Subject: Re: Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:18:40 -0500 (CDT) > > Mitch, > > they are tubers... > > There is a dominant bud that normally keeps the others from growing! I > don't think you would have multiple shoots (leafs) on one tuber!! you > should have just the one big tuber!1 But who knows it will take its own > course! > > Hope this would help and have fun growing > > > Taylor Hyndman > > on 4/15/02 11:00 AM, . . at iamwhatiam52@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have a thirty pound A. konjac bulb (tuber? corm?) whose flowering tip > was > > damaged. It now has half a dozen growing tips emerging. I am concerned > > that if they are all allowed to grow, I will end up with many smaller > bulbs > > instead of one huge one. Would cutting out all but one bud prevent > this? > > Any experts out there have some advice for me? > > Mitch Alvo > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > >

From: mburack at mindspring.com> on 2002.04.26 at 15:04:31(8647) Regardless of what you do ("letting the buds grow or not") more than likely it will divide heavily and you will not have the "single" large one at the end of the season. I have found konjac to be very different from other common amorphs... Plants like paeoniifolius and bulbifer seem to like staying "big". (once they get there) Konjac in my experience always seems to get to a point where it just divides off into infinity after a while. +More On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:26:47 -0500 (CDT)Message-Id: ". ." wrote: Taylor, After watching this tuber for a few more weeks, there are DEFINITELY four large and three small buds, all sprouting vigorously. No "dominant" bud. Has anyone had experience with this? Does anyone know if allowing several buds to grow will result in my prized Goliath tuber splitting into multiple little Davids? Mitch Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Subject: Re: Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:18:40 -0500 (CDT) Mitch, they are tubers... There is a dominant bud that normally keeps the others from growing! I don't think you would have multiple shoots (leafs) on one tuber!! you should have just the one big tuber!1 But who knows it will take its own course! Hope this would help and have fun growing Taylor Hyndman on 4/15/02 11:00 AM, . . at iamwhatiam52@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > I have a thirty pound A. konjac bulb (tuber? corm?) whose flowering tip was > damaged. It now has half a dozen growing tips emerging. I am concerned > that if they are all allowed to grow, I will end up with many smaller bulbs > instead of one huge one. Would cutting out all but one bud prevent this? > Any experts out there have some advice for me? > Mitch Alvo > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world?s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

From: "MJ Hatfield" mjhatfield at oneota.org> on 2002.04.26 at 15:36:30(8648) For me, in the past, multiple buds have resulted in multiple petioles which has resulted in multiple tubers. MJ

From: "Ronald h Kessler" ronlene at worldnet.att.net> on 2002.04.26 at 15:38:07(8649) Has anyone tried, just snap off all of the secondary buds and let the primary one continue to grow?? ----- Original Message ----- +More To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: Re: Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds > > Regardless of what you do ("letting the buds grow or not") more than likely it will divide heavily and you will not have the "single" large one at the end of the season. > > I have found konjac to be very different from other common amorphs... Plants like paeoniifolius and bulbifer seem to like staying "big". (once they get there) Konjac in my experience always seems to get to a point where it just divides off into infinity after a while. > > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:26:47 -0500 (CDT)Message-Id: ". ." wrote: > > Taylor, > After watching this tuber for a few more weeks, there are DEFINITELY four > large and three small buds, all sprouting vigorously. No "dominant" bud. > > Has anyone had experience with this? Does anyone know if allowing several > buds to grow will result in my prized Goliath tuber splitting into multiple > little Davids? > > Mitch > > > From: Taylor Hyndman > Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org > To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L > Subject: Re: Amorphophallus konjac, multiple buds > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:18:40 -0500 (CDT) > > Mitch, > > they are tubers... > > There is a dominant bud that normally keeps the others from growing! I > don't think you would have multiple shoots (leafs) on one tuber!! you > should have just the one big tuber!1 But who knows it will take its own > course! > > Hope this would help and have fun growing > > > Taylor Hyndman > > on 4/15/02 11:00 AM, . . at iamwhatiam52@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have a thirty pound A. konjac bulb (tuber? corm?) whose flowering tip > was > > damaged. It now has half a dozen growing tips emerging. I am concerned > > that if they are all allowed to grow, I will end up with many smaller > bulbs > > instead of one huge one. Would cutting out all but one bud prevent > this? > > Any experts out there have some advice for me? > > Mitch Alvo > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > >

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