St. Paul tiny titan

From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net (m yeakel-twum) on 2008.04.08 at 03:12:09(17320) Hello All! I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had the plant for almost 3 years. The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We are learning alot from this experience! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Margaret Yeakel-Twum +More Horticulturist Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park St.Paul, MN 55103 651-487-8256 margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080407/a863e955/attachment.htm

From: ju-bo at msn.com (ju-bo at msn.com) on 2008.04.08 at 10:00:27(17327) ________________________________ > From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:09 -0500 > Subject: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Hello Margaret, Welcome to aroid-L! +More Congrats on the blooming, I so hope the tiny thing eventually opens and produces its perfume to be appreciated by some! A task for someone like your goodself or ANYONE out there in aroid-land----research and document ALL the bloomings of this wonderful Amorphophallus species in say the last 15 or so years, particulalrly plants originating from seed collected in the wild by Jim Symon and Wilbert Hetterschied! The information, or at least MOST of it would be available on the archives of aroid-l, and from memory (not too good these days!!) would begin with the FIRST blooming at the home of the then-grower at MOBOT, I disremember her name at this moment (shame on me!), but this plant too was TINY, a real dwarf giant, and there was much discussion back then on if genitics played a role in such a small plant blooming! Please give us updates on your plants progress. Good Luck and good growing! Sincerely, Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA << Hello All! > I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml > We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had the plant for almost 3 years. > The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We are learning alot from this experience! > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. > > Margaret Yeakel-Twum > Horticulturist > Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park > St.Paul, MN 55103 > 651-487-8256 > margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us

From: honeybunny442 at yahoo.com (Susan B) on 2008.04.08 at 21:56:28(17335) I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! Susan +More PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) ju-bo at msn.com wrote: ________________________________ > From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:09 -0500 > Subject: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Hello Margaret, Welcome to aroid-L! Congrats on the blooming, I so hope the tiny thing eventually opens and produces its perfume to be appreciated by some! A task for someone like your goodself or ANYONE out there in aroid-land----research and document ALL the bloomings of this wonderful Amorphophallus species in say the last 15 or so years, particulalrly plants originating from seed collected in the wild by Jim Symon and Wilbert Hetterschied! The information, or at least MOST of it would be available on the archives of aroid-l, and from memory (not too good these days!!) would begin with the FIRST blooming at the home of the then-grower at MOBOT, I disremember her name at this moment (shame on me!), but this plant too was TINY, a real dwarf giant, and there was much discussion back then on if genitics played a role in such a small plant blooming! Please give us updates on your plants progress. Good Luck and good growing! Sincerely, Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA << Hello All! > I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml > We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had the plant for almost 3 years. > The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We are learning alot from this experience! > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. > > Margaret Yeakel-Twum > Horticulturist > Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park > St.Paul, MN 55103 > 651-487-8256 > margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080408/2686a2c0/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: St Louis, Kathy Upton.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 21193 bytes Desc: 1951837534-St Louis, Kathy Upton.jpg Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080408/2686a2c0/attachment-0001.jpg

From: drplantman at gmail.com (Jeremy P) on 2008.04.08 at 22:19:40(17336) Mention of a Titan archive, and Dr. Mo Fayyaz* *in particular, jogged my memory and lo and behold it was still floating around in my email archives. I suspect a more fleshed out documentation of Titan flowerings would be very well received by fans of this great sp. worldwide... http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/Titan_Arum_Archive/Archive_images/List_of_Data.html#anchor240070 I think there was another flowering @ RBG Sydney earlier this year... Gareth, are you still lurking here and can confirm or deny that? :) Enjoy, Jeremy +More On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Susan B wrote: > I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name > was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? > > Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was > Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! > > Susan > PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the > bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is > keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) > > *ju-bo at msn.com* wrote: > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net > > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:09 -0500 > > Subject: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan > > Hello Margaret, > > Welcome to aroid-L! > Congrats on the blooming, I so hope the tiny thing eventually opens and > produces its perfume to be appreciated by some! > A task for someone like your goodself or ANYONE out there in > aroid-land----research and document ALL the bloomings of this wonderful > Amorphophallus species in say the last 15 or so years, particulalrly plants > originating from seed collected in the wild by Jim Symon and Wilbert > Hetterschied! The information, or at least MOST of it would be available on > the archives of aroid-l, and from memory (not too good these days!!) would > begin with the FIRST blooming at the home of the then-grower at MOBOT, I > disremember her name at this moment (shame on me!), but this plant too was > TINY, a real dwarf giant, and there was much discussion back then on if > genitics played a role in such a small plant blooming! > Please give us updates on your plants progress. > Good Luck and good growing! > > Sincerely, > > Julius Boos > WPB, FLORIDA > > << Hello All! > > I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little > titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you > are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. > www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml > > We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had > some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The > spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the > flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" > tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot > that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had > the plant for almost 3 years. > > The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. > I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We > are learning alot from this experience! > > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. > > > > Margaret Yeakel-Twum > > Horticulturist > > Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park > > St.Paul, MN 55103 > > 651-487-8256 > > margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > > ------------------------------ > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster > Total Access, > No Cost. > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/4da1bc11/attachment.htm

From: honeybunny442 at yahoo.com (Susan B) on 2008.04.09 at 15:02:02(17344) Thanks Jeremy, that was great- and brought back memories. I flew down to Florida in 2001 to see my first flowering Titan- the one and only Mr. Stinky. To my surprise a month later one bloomed in Madison- only about 80 miles (~130km) from me. LOL could have saved the airfare! Susan +More Jeremy P wrote: Mention of a Titan archive, and Dr. Mo Fayyaz in particular, __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/d3096cfe/attachment-0001.htm

From: Thomas.Croat at mobot.org (Tom Croat) on 2008.04.09 at 15:08:28(17345) Dear Susan: Thanks for sending that picture of Kathy Upton. I had never seen it. She worked for me for a number of years and was a spectacular grower and really loved aroids. Tom +More ________________________________ From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Susan B Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:56 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! Susan PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) ju-bo at msn.com wrote: ________________________________ > From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:09 -0500 > Subject: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Hello Margaret, Welcome to aroid-L! Congrats on the blooming, I so hope the tiny thing eventually opens and produces its perfume to be appreciated by some! A task for someone like your goodself or ANYONE out there in aroid-land----research and document ALL the bloomings of this wonderful Amorphophallus species in say the last 15 or so years, particulalrly plants originating from seed collected in the wild by Jim Symon and Wilbert Hetterschied! The information, or at least MOST of it would be available on the archives of aroid-l, and from memory (not too good these days!!) would begin with the FIRST blooming at the home of the then-grower at MOBOT, I disremember her name at this moment (shame on me!), but this plant too was TINY, a real dwarf giant, and there was much discussion back then on if genitics played a role in such a small plant blooming! Please give us updates on your plants progress. Good Luck and good growing! Sincerely, Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA << Hello All! > I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml > We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had the plant for almost 3 years. > The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We are learning alot from this experience! > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. > > Margaret Yeakel-Twum > Horticulturist > Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park > St.Paul, MN 55103 > 651-487-8256 > margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access er/text5.com> , No Cost. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/730a9009/attachment.htm

From: ku5 at yahoo.com (KATHY UPTON) on 2008.04.09 at 22:29:43(17352) Hi, Yes, I'm here! The tuber that bloomed when it was 3 years old hasn't bloomed again, but is healthy. A sibling from the same seed batch bloomed in 2001, both at University of Missouri-St.Louis, (although Julius is correct remembering how I took the little one home one evening so I wouldn't miss it opening, not wanting to spend the night at work. And it really sent its odor throughout my whole house at 3 AM! ). Since then there have been only leaves produced, proving how unpredictable the species can be. Would it be quite as unique and interesting if it bloomed like clockwork?! Jim Symon, if only you could be around now to see all the fun and excitement you created! -Kathy Upton +More "StroWi at t-online.de" wrote: Susan, do you know how Kathy's tiny titan performed thereafter. I rember that Kathy's tiny titan was only three years old - sown in 1995 and flowering in 1998! I wonder, if it is grown up know and has flowered again. Happy growing, Bernhrd. P.S.: Or are you present in the aroid-L as well, Kathy? -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:56:28 +0200 Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan From: Susan B To: Discussion of aroids I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! Susan PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/7471a1f1/attachment-0001.htm

From: honeybunny442 at yahoo.com (Susan B) on 2008.04.09 at 23:13:23(17353) Dear Tom, Nice to hear from you! I have to confess I "stole" that photo from somewhere, either a web site or a posting to ARoid-L. I used to collect photos from all the bloomings until they became almost common. Oops, except for at MOBOT. (hee hee, just kidding!) Susan +More Tom Croat wrote: v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Dear Susan: Thanks for sending that picture of Kathy Upton. I had never seen it. She worked for me for a number of years and was a spectacular grower and really loved aroids. Tom --------------------------------- From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Susan B Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:56 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! Susan PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) ju-bo at msn.com wrote: ________________________________ > From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:09 -0500 > Subject: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Hello Margaret, Welcome to aroid-L! Congrats on the blooming, I so hope the tiny thing eventually opens and produces its perfume to be appreciated by some! A task for someone like your goodself or ANYONE out there in aroid-land----research and document ALL the bloomings of this wonderful Amorphophallus species in say the last 15 or so years, particulalrly plants originating from seed collected in the wild by Jim Symon and Wilbert Hetterschied! The information, or at least MOST of it would be available on the archives of aroid-l, and from memory (not too good these days!!) would begin with the FIRST blooming at the home of the then-grower at MOBOT, I disremember her name at this moment (shame on me!), but this plant too was TINY, a real dwarf giant, and there was much discussion back then on if genitics played a role in such a small plant blooming! Please give us updates on your plants progress. Good Luck and good growing! Sincerely, Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA << Hello All! > I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml > We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had the plant for almost 3 years. > The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We are learning alot from this experience! > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. > > Margaret Yeakel-Twum > Horticulturist > Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park > St.Paul, MN 55103 > 651-487-8256 > margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/e6110058/attachment-0001.htm

From: Thomas.Croat at mobot.org (Tom Croat) on 2008.04.10 at 00:30:42(17354) Bernhard: I don't know if Kathy is listening or not but I do know that she has a plant that she thinks can flower because we talked recently about having a show here at the Garden if it were to flower. Tom +More ________________________________ From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of StroWi at t-online.de Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:49 AM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Susan, do you know how Kathy's tiny titan performed thereafter. I rember that Kathy's tiny titan was only three years old - sown in 1995 and flowering in 1998! I wonder, if it is grown up know and has flowered again. Happy growing, Bernhrd. P.S.: Or are you present in the aroid-L as well, Kathy? -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:56:28 +0200 Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan From: Susan B To: Discussion of aroids I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! Susan PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/6b37673c/attachment-0001.htm

From: Thomas.Croat at mobot.org (Tom Croat) on 2008.04.10 at 02:27:30(17357) Hey Susan: Don't rub it in! Believe me I have been deeply embarrassed by our inability to flower this beast! Tom +More ________________________________ From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Susan B Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:13 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Dear Tom, Nice to hear from you! I have to confess I "stole" that photo from somewhere, either a web site or a posting to ARoid-L. I used to collect photos from all the bloomings until they became almost common. Oops, except for at MOBOT. (hee hee, just kidding!) Susan Tom Croat wrote: Dear Susan: Thanks for sending that picture of Kathy Upton. I had never seen it. She worked for me for a number of years and was a spectacular grower and really loved aroids. Tom ________________________________ From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Susan B Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:56 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! Susan PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) ju-bo at msn.com wrote: ________________________________ > From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:12:09 -0500 > Subject: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Hello Margaret, Welcome to aroid-L! Congrats on the blooming, I so hope the tiny thing eventually opens and produces its perfume to be appreciated by some! A task for someone like your goodself or ANYONE out there in aroid-land----research and document ALL the bloomings of this wonderful Amorphophallus species in say the last 15 or so years, particulalrly plants originating from seed collected in the wild by Jim Symon and Wilbert Hetterschied! The information, or at least MOST of it would be available on the archives of aroid-l, and from memory (not too good these days!!) would begin with the FIRST blooming at the home of the then-grower at MOBOT, I disremember her name at this moment (shame on me!), but this plant too was TINY, a real dwarf giant, and there was much discussion back then on if genitics played a role in such a small plant blooming! Please give us updates on your plants progress. Good Luck and good growing! Sincerely, Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA << Hello All! > I am new to this list and happened to see the reference to the little titan blooming in St. Paul, MN. I am the keeper of that plant and hope you are all able to view the webcam and blog about this little bloom. www.comozooconservatory.org/cons/gardenblog.shtml > We are anticipating the inflorescence to open this week. We have had some dark weather the last couple of days and growth has slowed down. The spathe is incomplete and only covers about half of the spadix. So the flowers are visible at all times. It is very tiny---it only measured 28" tall today! The corm weighs 25 pounds and the plant is from a 1993 seed lot that was planted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter,MN. We have had the plant for almost 3 years. > The IT folks are working on the problems with the website at this time. I noticed that the webcam was not showing a live picture this afternoon. We are learning alot from this experience! > If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. > > Margaret Yeakel-Twum > Horticulturist > Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park > St.Paul, MN 55103 > 651-487-8256 > margaret.yeakel-twum at ci.stpaul.mn.us _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access er/text5.com> , No Cost. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/eb91266b/attachment.htm

From: ju-bo at msn.com (ju-bo at msn.com) on 2008.04.10 at 09:17:38(17361) ________________________________ > Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:29:43 -0700 > From: ku5 at yahoo.com > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan Dear Kathy and All, Kathy, hello! Good to hear your ''voice again! I thought I had a memory of the small, dwarfed and somewhat deformed bloom, and thought it was the first blooming of Jim`s seed. Believe it or not, I do NOT recall what you and Susan report as the earlier blooming, the one in the photo with you kindly posted by Susan! This information really is for Margret, the grower of the present tiny bloom under discussion, as she just might be interested in the sequence of the earlier bloomings, most from Jim Symon`s seeds! He would have been so very thrilled. He really made a BIG difference in the general public`s perception and interest in ALL plants. A great contribution which benifited all of us. Julius +More >>> Hi, > Yes, I'm here! The tuber that bloomed when it was 3 years old hasn't bloomed again, but is healthy. A sibling from the same seed batch bloomed in 2001, both at University of Missouri-St.Louis, (although Julius is correct remembering how I took the little one home one evening so I wouldn't miss it opening, not wanting to spend the night at work. And it really sent its odor throughout my whole house at 3 AM! ). Since then there have been only leaves produced, proving how unpredictable the species can be. Would it be quite as unique and interesting if it bloomed like clockwork?! Jim Symon, if only you could be around now to see all the fun and excitement you created! > -Kathy Upton > > > "StroWi at t-online.de" wrote: > Susan, > > do you know how Kathy's tiny titan performed thereafter. > I rember that Kathy's tiny titan was only three years old - sown in 1995 and flowering in 1998! > > I wonder, if it is grown up know and has flowered again. > > Happy growing, > Bernhrd. > P.S.: Or are you present in the aroid-L as well, Kathy? > > > > -----Original Message----- > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:56:28 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan > From: Susan B > To: Discussion of aroids > > I remember that tiny titan, saved a photo somewhere. The caretaker's name was Kathy, wasn't it? Was it Kathy Upton??? > > Ha ha! found the photo- sorry for any copyright stealing!!! Yes, it was Kathy Upton- what a memory! The old gal STILL HAS IT!!!!! [http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/18.gif] > > Susan > PS. Dr. Mo at University of Wisconsin- Madison has details on all the bloomings, I haven't seen him in a few years so I don't know if he is keeping up with them still. (English teachers please ignore that sentence!!) > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com

From: ku5 at yahoo.com (KATHY UPTON) on 2008.04.10 at 17:22:21(17368) Bernhard and Julius, The photo that Susan had is from 2001 and was a more "normal" flowering than the little one in 1998. The little one had a powerful stench and someone suggested that a tiny one might need to have a giant smell to accomplish its goal, but for whatever reason it smelled like a combination of sauerkraut, a rotting animal, and trash sitting outside in a dumpster in the sun that had been there a week. On the night that it opened at my house, we were sleeping with the attic fan on, and the smell carried right upstairs to us. The smell given off by the 2001 inflorescence was disappointing compared to that. You asked about the size of them now. The largest one from that seed batch has a leaf about 10 feet tall, and 25 pounds. The 2 that bloomed are near that size. I haven't always had the space available that they deserve and haven't always been able to move them up into the large pot sizes they would really love over the years, so actually they are probably small compared to those at other institutions that received the same seed. But they are healthy and have formed offsets, too, at times when I let one occasionally get too crowded in its pot. Cheers, Kathy +More "StroWi at t-online.de" wrote: Hi Kathy, nice to read that your tiny titan is fine (and I hope you as well) . Two more questions: Could you decribe the odor that maybe woke you up? ( I am still terrified when I think of my first albus flowering in my wintergarden. A mixture of sewage and rendering.Now they are only allowed to flower outside....) The people in the Botanical Garden in Bonn, Germany mentioned that titanum is not that bad and has a sort of fishy odor (but I forgot to ask how old that fish was....). What is the size of the tuber and leaf after ten years now? Happy growing, Bernhard. -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:29:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan From: KATHY UPTON To: Discussion of aroids Hi,Yes, I'm here! The tuber that bloomed when it was 3 years old hasn't bloomed again, but is healthy. A sibling from the same seed batch bloomed in 2001, both at University of Missouri-St.Louis, (although Julius is correct remembering how I took the little one home one evening so I wouldn't miss it opening, not wanting to spend the night at work. And it really sent its odor throughout my whole house at 3 AM! ). Since then there have been only leaves produced, proving how unpredictable the species can be. Would it be quite as unique and interesting if it bloomed like clockwork?! Jim Symon, if only you could be around now to see all the fun and excitement you created! -Kathy Upton _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080410/c405109b/attachment-0001.htm

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