Amorphophallus lambii growing conditions

From: "StroWi at t-online.de" <StroWi at t-online.de> on 2011.02.11 at 18:54:11(21932) Aroidrs, last year I could get 4 lambii seeds form http://www.rarepalmseeds.com/index2.shtml and I guess that they were really lambii. +More They germinated and grew happily till December and went dormant. They were grown in a small plastic tunnel greenhouse in a wintergarden on a heating mat. Outside the plastic tunnel temperatures went down to 12 °C ( 53 °F ). The temperature under the pot inside the tunnel was 30 - 32 °C ( 86 - 90 °F ); I did not take the air tempeature in the tunnel or the temperature of the substrate in the pot. The other day I checked the pot and found the rotted tubers ( 0.5 to 1 cm). I learned from the archive that lambii was successfully grown from Craig M. Allen, Fairchild Tropical Garden, and Reggie Whitehead, Florida. Pease comment on my growing conditions and (even more interesting) improvements....... Happy growing, Bernhard. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: Marco Motta <marco.giovanni.motta at gmail.com> on 2011.02.12 at 13:14:41(21936) Hi Bernhard, I have also sowed Am. lambii from same source, they grow very well, still growing, when start to yellowish the leaf they sprout a new one. I have in my greenhouse in a warm area with 20°C on the night and 25°c during the day, the humidity it from 60% to 80%, I have this seedlings with other Amorphophallus from Borneo and Malaysia. I think that does not like too much heating on the bottom side, i think that no more than 25°C based on my experience, bottom heating help to germinate seeds but after germination it is better to remove or decrease. Happy growing to all Marco HTML +More On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:54 PM, StroWi@t-online.de wrote: Aroidrs, last year I could get 4 lambii seeds form http://www.rarepalmseeds.com/index2.shtml and I guess that they were really lambii. They germinated and grew happily till December and went dormant. They were grown in a small plastic tunnel greenhouse in a wintergarden on a heating mat. Outside the plastic tunnel temperatures went down to 12 °C ( 53 °F ). The temperature under the pot inside the tunnel was 30 - 32 °C ( 86 - 90 °F ); I did not take the air tempeature in the tunnel or the temperature of the substrate in the pot. The other day I checked the pot and found the rotted tubers ( 0.5 to 1 cm). I learned from the archive that lambii was successfully grown from Craig M. Allen, Fairchild Tropical Garden, and Reggie Whitehead, Florida. Pease comment on my growing conditions and (even more interesting) improvements....... Happy growing, Bernhard. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l -- Marco Motta --000e0cd73438f92de4049c1598ce-- --==============h21988518460148679=

From: "StroWi at t-online.de" <StroWi at t-online.de> on 2011.02.12 at 19:29:25(21944) style="margin:0px;">Thanks for your answer, Marco. HTML +More style="margin:0px;">i'll see if I can measure the temperature in the pot. It might indeed be too high... style="margin:0px;">Happy growing, Bernhard. style="margin:0px;"> -----Original Message----- > Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:14:41 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus lambii growing conditions > From: Marco Motta > To: Discussion of aroids > Hi Bernhard, I have also sowed Am. lambii from same source, they grow very well, still growing, when start to yellowish the leaf they sprout a new one. I have in my greenhouse in a warm area with 20°C on the night and 25°c during the day, the humidity it from 60% to 80%, I have this seedlings with other Amorphophallus from Borneo and Malaysia. I think that does not like too much heating on the bottom side, i think that no more than 25°C based on my experience, bottom heating help to germinate seeds but after germination it is better to remove or decrease. Happy growing to all />Marco --==============‡78238920138819656=

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