IAS Aroid Quasi Forum

About Aroid-L
 This is a continuously updated archive of the Aroid-L mailing list in a forum format - not an actual Forum. If you want to post, you will still need to register for the Aroid-L mailing list and send your postings by e-mail for moderation in the normal way.

  Dracontioides etc
From: GeoffAroid at aol.com on 1998.06.10 at 02:25:05(2254)
For those members who shared in the generous distribution of seeds of
Dracontioides and Lasimorpha by Julius Boos I thought it might be of interest
that the seeds I received have now germinated. Both at exactly the same time,
almost to within a day of each other, and both after I had more or less given
them up for lost. They were sown in chopped sphagnum and peat-based compost
and kept warm and wet. I think the final trigger for germination was the
arrival of the early morning sun in their window which rapidly heated the
small propagator they were in to high temperatures (85-90 deg. F) before
moving on and the temperature then lowering to a more normal level. I would
imagine that the swamps in which they live, and the mud in which they
germinate must reach very high temperatures at certain times of day.

I now have a number of small seedlings with beautifully shaped leaves and I
look forward to growing them on - hopefully successfully! Many thanks to
Julius once again.

+More
From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 1998.06.10 at 13:03:21(2260)
>For those members who shared in the generous distribution of seeds of
Dracontioides and Lasimorpha by Julius Boos I thought it might be of
interest
that the seeds I received have now germinated. Both at exactly the same
time,
almost to within a day of each other, and both after I had more or less
given
them up for lost. They were sown in chopped sphagnum and peat-based compost
and kept warm and wet. I think the final trigger for germination was the
arrival of the early morning sun in their window which rapidly heated the
small propagator they were in to high temperatures (85-90 deg. F) before
moving on and the temperature then lowering to a more normal level. I would
imagine that the swamps in which they live, and the mud in which they
germinate must reach very high temperatures at certain times of day.

I now have a number of small seedlings with beautifully shaped leaves and I
look forward to growing them on - hopefully successfully! Many thanks to
Julius once again.

+More
Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.