Julius Boos wrote:
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Sent : Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:52 PM
To : Discussion of aroids
Subject : [Aroid-l] Re: titanum at ebay Germany
Dear Friends,
Contary to common belief and most literature, A. titanum can be made to
and does produce offsets.
Craig Allen, who used to be at Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, and
who was one of if not THE best A. titanum grower who I know of, reported
the following on his cultivation methods for this species.
The artice appears in an older issue of 'Aroideana'. If you wanted a
major increase in tuber size and possible blooming (and who does not
dream of that!), you should use an over-sized potting container. By
accident, Craig found that if you under-potted a tuber of A. titanum in
too small a pot, the tuber would then grow in this constricted space,
but oftentimes would split into several/many offsets.
Julius W.P.B.,
FLORIDA
That first ebay plant is not a titanum, for sure. You can clearly see
scars from where offsets were removed and titanum doesn't produce
offsets. The tuber is so dirty I won't hazard an ID, but a dirty
konjac could look like that.
-Ken<<
StroWi@t-online.de wrote:
Thanks, Ken, Marek and Lord P(lant taxonomist),
and look what I found now:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&itemw68589111&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
A konjac or something else?
Some titanum were offered around the time of the bloom of the triple
flower bud titanum in Bonn; some before the bloom in Bonn for 40 to 52
Euro and one after the bloom; that had some effect:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&itemw66324186&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Good growing,
Bernhard.
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