Amorphophallus Titanum offset??

From: "StroWi at t-online.de" <StroWi at t-online.de> on 2011.01.26 at 06:27:04(21810) style="margin:0px;">Hi Jason, HTML +More the general opinion is that titanum doesn't grow offsets. style="margin:0px;">I am not sure, if I read it right, but I found this already some time ago: "Since 2001, the plant in sunny conditions, named 'Hyperion,' has thrown off some smaller corms..." cited from: href="http://plantphys.info/greenhouse/titan2007.shtml">http://plantphys.info/greenhouse/titan2007.shtml style="margin:0px;">If that titan really grows offsets, it's at least a very rare trait in titanum. Maybe we get some comments...... Happy offsetting, Bernhard -----Original Message----- > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:46:56 +0100 > Subject: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Titanum offset? > From: Jason Sarine > To: > Well here is some food for thought. I dug up one of my titanums that was going dormant to repot today and imagine my surprise when I found a second smaller tuber alongside the main one. It had a small second leaf all summer but I imagined it was just feeding the main tuber as I thought they did not divide or offset, but here we are. Now I pose this question. The seller I bought these from grows their stock from seed. Could some genetic diversity have actually created an offsetting titantum? I guess another growing season is in order to see if it holds this trait. Bye now. Jason Sarine --==============67725118716162346=

From: "StroWi at t-online.de" <StroWi at t-online.de> on 2011.01.26 at 19:55:16(21827) style="margin:0px;">Dear Lord P.(erspicacious), HTML +More style="margin:0px;">a good point..... (maybe wrong species... - at ebay Gemany we have a very "funny" guy selling titanum and other rare Amorphophallus species that are transformed to knojac by the bare act of potting and growing them! A real botanical miracle...) /> But what do you think about the statement that the titanum " 'Hyperion,' has thrown off some smaller corms.." mentioned here: style="margin:0px;"> href="http://plantphys.info/greenhouse/titan2007.shtml">http://plantphys.info/greenhouse/titan2007.shtml />Best, Bernhard. -----Original Message----- > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:52:59 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Titanum offset? > From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" > To: "'Discussion of aroids'" /> > An even worse answer is that you may have bought the wrong species...................... Any pics available on the plant in leaf? /> Cheers, WIlbert --==============90106561823707898=

From: "StroWi at t-online.de" <StroWi at t-online.de> on 2011.02.06 at 14:37:47(21864) Hi Brian, when you write 'split into two corms' would that mean that a relatively big tuber would have split into aprox. two tubers of the same size? Or was it what we would call an offset, e.g. a small tuber grown from a bigger one? +More You might remember the 117 kg tuber at the Bonn Botanical Garden that grew a triple inflorescence. This tuber grew three leaves threreafter and grew three individual tubers in the vegetative phase after the triple flower. Happy offsetting, Bernhard. -----Original Message----- > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:11:38 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Titanum offset? > From: Brian O'Brien > To: Discussion of aroids > At least two of our titanums have split into two corms - one that we still have and one that we donated to the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota. These plants are all grown from seeds from the original Symon collection. Brian O'Brien _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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