Re: breaking dormancy in Amorphophallus

From: StroWi at t-online.de (StroWi) on 2001.04.19 at 01:40:21(6209) Dear Clarence Waldron, DearMichael Riley, Dear Tsuh Yang, Dear All, Thanks for your replies! Letting the Amorphs going their (natural) way and giving them favourable conditions is definitely a good way to get them out of dormancy. My point was rather the one Tsuh Yang mentioned. What to do with the ones which should (normally) start to grow but won't. I remember,too, that Wilbert H. and S. Ittenbach mentionend in their article on the cultivation of Amorphs that offsets sometimes refuse to start growing for years and then start (if they don't die, finally). So the question is more precise, what to do with tubers and esp. offsets that are due to grow in a normal cycle of dormancy and growing but won't. I thought that growth regulators (ethelene or maybe cytokinines) might be worth a trial. +More Is there anything known in aroids in this respect? Any comments wolcome! Thanks, Bernhard.

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