Re: Alocasia dormancy

From: DBurch2345 at aol.com on 2000.03.08 at 22:49:16(4183) I used to use tubers of an alocasia (more or less A. amazonica) as a demonstration of dormancy in a plant propagation class. Someone had once told me that the little dry scale leaves at the tip of the tuber were inhibitory to growth, so I would carefully remove those until the little new whitish/pinkish/greenish bud was exposed. Planted in my usual "interior plant" mix, it usually worked like a charm - close to 100% starting into growth in a few weeks versus perhaps 10% in the "control" unpeeled group. I do this as a matter of course now, and get good growth on most of the common types that I have. All of this is in South Florida, so warm and wet is a given for us unless we work hard to avoid it. Derek

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