Kathy's titanum

From: Clarence Waldron <cwaldron at powersupply.net> on 1998.04.29 at 12:53:00(2054) I suppose it's okay to be skeptical, but Amorphophallus is a strange = genus and does strange things. Last year my large (6.5 lb) konjac tuber = finally put up an inflorescence (and then promptly took a nap for 13 = months--no leaf last year)--so did two that were less than a pound (they = promptly sent up a leaf also). On the back cover of Aroideana 11(2), = Fanny Lee Phillips published a photo of a 3.5 oz konjac with an = inflorescence. The real question is, what triggers the flowering process? The fact = that I had three konjacs of different sizes bloom in one year suggests = that it may have something to do with the previous growing season--but = what? And why didn't all of Kathy's titanums bloom this year? Clarence Waldron +More cwaldron@powersupply.net

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