Premature amorphophallus dormancy

From: ironious2 at yahoo.com (E.Vincent Morano) on 2008.06.17 at 05:39:29(17856) I just purchased a large A.henryi that looked already fully grown for the year. Its about 18 inches tall and its about 3 years old.The guy I got it from said that he was growing it in full sun. So I put it in full sun only to have it get badly burned. I know that some amorphs can be grown in full sun if you start them there because I have done it before. Anyway, It is starting to get vertical wrinkles on the petiole as if it is starting to go dormant. Does anyone know if it will just go dormant for the season and be fine? Or is it possible that it will die? About half of the leaves were sunburned. +More -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080616/24c94859/attachment.htm

From: ronmchatton at aol.com (ronmchatton at aol.com) on 2008.06.17 at 12:55:52(17861) It's probably to early to tell but in all likelihood it will drop that leaf and put up a new one. I've had that happen before when leaves are damaged. A great deal depends on how significant the damage and how early in the season it happens. There's nothing you can do if that leaf is being shed. I would just watch it for signs of new growth. If the old corm hadn't been completely absorbed yet it's still there along with whatever new corm was being formed and they will usually just put up a new leaf. Ron McHatton +More Central Florida, Zone 9 -----Original Message----- From: E.Vincent Morano To: Discussion of aroids Sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 1:39 am Subject: [Aroid-l] Premature amorphophallus dormancy I just purchased a large A.henryi that looked already fully grown for the year. Its about 18 inches tall and its about 3 years old.The guy I got it from said that he was growing it in full sun. So I put it in full sun only to have it get badly burned. I know that some amorphs can be grown in full sun if you start them there because I have done it before. Anyway, It is starting to get vertical wrinkles on the petiole as if it is starting to go dormant. Does anyone know if it will just go dormant for the season and be fine? Or is it possible that it will die? About half of the leaves were sunburned. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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