Re: [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros potting

From: Geoffrey Kibby <fieldmycol at yahoo.co.uk> on 2007.02.02 at 17:16:24(15202) Hi Peter,I have uploaded three photos to my webspace, they can be accessed by going to: http://members.aol.com/Helicodiceros.jpg, http://members.aol.com/Helicodiceros2.jpg and http://members.aol.com/Helicodiceros4.jpgPlease note that there is NO www. in the address, also make sure there is no forward slash after the .jpg.The smell was quite revolting, very strong of excrement (dog) but fairly short-lived. The plant grew throughout November-January outdoors in temperatures around 35-50 degrees Farenheit and flowered this week (it is still in flower) so it is obviously quite tough. Very attractive in a gruesome sort of way..... the spadix has these amazing stiff, slightly curled bristles all over it. Theory is that it resembles the back end of a dead animal, tail and all—cute! Certainly smells like one.Best wishes,GeoffreyLondonOn 1 Feb 2007, at 22:16, Baumfarn Webmaster wrote:Flowering ?Great! congratulations!Do you have pictures?And can you give some impressions of the odor?greetingsPeterGeo +More ffrey Kibby wrote: Hi Bernhard,My Helicodiceros is just flowering now and I just put the tuber in vertically as normal, it seems perfectly happy!Geoffrey KibbyLondonOn 29 Jan 2007, at 08:06, StroWi@t-online.de wrote: Aroiders,recently I read somewhere that Helicodiceros muscivorus tubers should bepotted horizontically instead of vertically.Any comments?Happy potting,Bernhard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------treeferns & aroids: http://www.baumfarn.at/treefern (http://www.baumfarn.at)---------------------------------------------------Amorphophallus network: http://www.amorphophallus.baumfarn.at/_______________________________________________Aroid-l mailing listAroid-l@gizmoworks.comhttp://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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