Re: [aroid-l] growing tip of Alocasia

From: piaba <piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2004.03.21 at 02:15:45(11313) hi derek, dan, > 2) The break point was too low and a side-shoot(s) > will > in time dominate and grow out. +More i think that's what it's going to happen. i wasn't sure if the tuber was still there or had dried up, that's why i was peeling off a lot of the top and ended up breaking it. the stem is still green and firm. > things are likely to happen, assuming the stem of > your > subject plant isn't subversively rotting from the > bottom/ up > (alocasias have a nasty habit of doing that > sometimes!): my main problem with Alocasias seem to be tubers that go dormant and then shrivel up, dry up and never come back. just lost another A. reginula that way. not sure what the problem is. thanks for your help. tsuh yang __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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