Re: [Aroid-l] amorphophallus SICK Looking bulb HELP

From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" <mmarcotr at email.smith.edu> on 2004.11.15 at 14:38:07(12381) If you know someone with a greenhouse that has a supply of fungicides you may want to apply Banrot (trade name) to the cut. It can be used as a powder and is often used for tuberous begonia etc and other easy to rot storage organs. Don't ask me where to get it but I have seen it used at a few places. +More _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall >>> gregg1-@charter.net 11/15/04 09:11AM >>> If it is injured or sick it finds its way to my house. Paeoniifolius Bulb, received from my friend, appears to have an injury from possible digging instrument used for its removal. It has been out of the soil for about 4 weeks. The gash is about 7" long and 4" wide. Ya it is a nice size one for sure. I have used a spoon yesterday 11-14-04 and removed the "Mush" and "decay", and some seemingly discolored tissue up to the point of clean healthy flesh. I would like to save this bulb if possible. There is a few spots remaining which appear as slight discoloration ( dark spots ) but still, "semi firm" that would require deeper and more radical tissue insult to remove. I would say that I extracted a good 15% of the bulbs mass. Is there anything else which I should do other than say a prayer? Is the extraction of the decay the proper means to save the bulb? Is there a wonder application to end future decay? The soil the plant was in, is it considered contaminated? My suggestion to that was, " dump it and avoid the risk of any possible contamination ". Thank you Gregg and Maggie Dorst gregg1-@charter.net _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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