A few miscellaneous Q's..

From: Dana Scholle <dana at homecom.com> on 1997.06.16 at 14:34:54(844) Hiya everyone, I have a couple questions for my lovely fellow aroiders. I guess I'll list them out: 1. If anyone remembers my Amorph. Konjac trauma a while back (Where cat from hell broke the developing leaf) the plant did go dormant maybe a month or so ago, and upon inspection, it looks like the tuber is still nice and fat. I pulled off the withered stem and saw what looks like the same little pointy-looking sprout which sat on top of my tuber before when it was dormant last time; and sometimes it would green up a little, then turn brown, and back and forth until it finally started to grow in earnest. This time, it's green, but looking like it's fading. Is this a normal thing for a dormant tuber? I want to make sure it wasn't trying to grow and I stunted it or something horrible. Just to be sure, I repotted the tuber which had been outside in a fairly heavy medium and got a good bit of rain into a faster draining medium (Peat, a teeny bit of vermiculite and perlite, and left it dry a few days to help ensure it wouldn't rot or anything. Is this smart, or does it require more moisture? Any suggestions on how to baby this baby to get it to grow healthy again? It seemed like a few new roots were present and a couple of budding roots, and I am wondering that somehow by being encased in the old dying leaf, the brand new shoot might have started to rot? It was still green when I pulled the old leaf off, but had a bit of a softish, fading to a brown look to it, and I can't remember if it did this before. 2. I had a great time trading with Kevin Martyn last week, and got some Amorph Bulbifer seedlings, which I am very excited about! I read something about seed culture of amorphs, and I am a bit confused on one point: The leaf that is present on the seedling, will this be the only leaf it puts up this year? I always got the impression Amorphs only put up like one leaf per year, but this literature implies that it will put up more..? 3. Petra Malesevich was kind enough to pass along some Dracontium Tubercles (Yes! Hee Hee) They are adorable! But wait! Which end goes up? They don't have that Amorph shape where I can easily tell the top, they're sort of scallion shaped, but I think on some I can make out sort of a wartier side. Can anyone suggest some good growing tips on these? I am so looking forward to growing them! Actually, along the same subject, I am really interested in getting tubercles or tubers of Drac. soconuscum, but I really hate to overstep on Petra's wonderful generosity by asking for yet more tubercles! Does anyone know of a good source or maybe has a couple spare I could either buy or trade for? Anyway, thanks all for all the great help everyone! Dana

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