Re: titanum blooms

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2001.05.17 at 15:36:20(6489) Dear Fellow Highest Primate, Douglas, Don't worry about the weird purists, we aren't mad because we prefer hybridising! Be patient a little longer. The current obsession with the inferior nasty things in the wild will soon die. Modern horticulture with squeaky clean wall to wall tissue culture will make things easier for us in the west. No CITES or Lacey problems any more. Hybridisation and computer planned parenthood will soon make the inferior rightly extinct forever. So Aroiders, (frozen pollen and hot spadixes!), chill out, don't be Party poopers. After all, we are in the Era of the wisest Ape ever. We've got to have better flowers to celebrate the wake for the nasty old wild we never really cared about anyway. Got any brilliant writing for the Newsletter about your private Eugenic work? I noticed that you haven't yet offered any new hybrids to the Spath Control Centre? Could you? Not dull species thanks, they have no future now See you at the Wake! EdyRon +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 9:54 PM Subject: Re: titanum blooms | | How 'bout making some hybrids? | - the Mad Hybridist, maker of nightmares. | | | | | Douglas Ewing @mobot.org on 05/09/2001 10:32:19 PM | | Please respond to aroid-l@mobot.org | | Sent by: aroid-l@mobot.org | | | To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L | cc: | | Subject: Re: titanum blooms | | | Julius, this is our second tuber to bloom. the first one was in July 1999. | I plan to send pollen to Fairchild with the hope it might produce seed | there. I will also refrigerate some for the future????? | | thanks, Doug | | _________________/\/\/\______________________ | | Doug Ewing, Greenhouse Manager (206) 543-0436 | Department of Botany | University of Washington | Box 355325 | Seattle, WA 98195-5325 | | | On Tue, 8 May 2001, Julius Boos wrote: | | > | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Douglas Ewing | > To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L | > Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 12:58 AM | > Subject: titanum blooms | > | > | > Dear Doug, | > | > Congrats!!!!!!! Just an Idea, but why don`t you try to link up w/ | Craig | > at Fairchild, you could collect pollen (he could advise on freezing or | > cooling it, etc.) and get it to Craig and MAYBE we could get | > pollenation/seed on his 'Mr. Stinky'!! Is this the second of THIS | year?? | > If it is and you had kept pollen from the first, you could try | pollenating | > this second one!! | > | > Sincerely, | > | > Julius | > | > >>Today at 4pm our second Amorphophallus titanum has started opening. Ht. | is | > 5'4" ( 163cm ). already 7pm, the spathe is widely open, and the stench | is | > building in the room. I am doing a much lower-key media announcement this | > go-around, but am open for visitors the next several days. This one is | > much more open, and has more striking coloration. Will try to keep you | > posted. Doug | > | > _________________/\/\/\______________________ | > | > Doug Ewing, Greenhouse Manager (206) 543-0436 | > Department of Botany | > University of Washington | > Box 355325 | > Seattle, WA 98195-5325<< | > | > | > | > | > | | | | |

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