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Hi Bernhard,

This is very interesting to hear - we're near completion of a home-built laminar flow hood, and hope to try some tissue culture with titanum. Cloning of our plant Perry would be well-received by Perry's fans, I think.

Brian

At 08:45 AM 2/6/2011, you wrote:

Brian,

since I did titanum tissue culture, I can confirm that you get a
tuberlike tissue that grows multiple buds on one clump of tuberlike
tissue. When you excise single buds and root them you get somtimes
plants with two or three leafbuds growing and these will develop into
single tubers or corms within the first vegetavive phase.

So far I have not seen that these plants keep a trait of producing
offsets; once they grow as single corms/tubers they behave seedlings do.
BTW, the far majority or in other words nearly all of the rooted buds
develop into plantlets that behave and grow like seelings do.

Happy growing, Bernhard.

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:35:53 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] amorphophallus titanum offset?
> From: Brian Williams
> To: Discussion of aroids

> I have seen offsets formed from TCed plants of Titanum in the past.
> The callused tuber or tubers would often produce clusters of plants
> rather than single plants. I am not sure if this is the case here but
> it maybe?

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