Craig Allen, who used to be at Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, and who
was one of if not THE best A. titanum grower who I know of, reported the
following on his cultivation methods for this species.
The artice appears in an older issue of 'Aroideana'. If you wanted a major
increase in tuber size and possible blooming (and who does not dream of
that!), you should use an over-sized potting container. By accident, Craig
found that if you under-potted a tuber of A. titanum in too small a pot, the
tuber would then grow in this constricted space, but oftentimes would split
into several/many offsets.
Julius W.P.B.,
FLORIDA
That first ebay plant is not a titanum, for sure. You can clearly see
scars from where offsets were removed and titanum doesn't produce offsets.
The tuber is so dirty I won't hazard an ID, but a dirty konjac could look
like that.
-Ken<<
StroWi@t-online.de wrote:
Thanks, Ken, Marek and Lord P(lant taxonomist),
and look what I found now:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&itemw68589111&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
A konjac or something else?
Some titanum were offered around the time of the bloom of the triple
flower bud titanum in Bonn; some before the bloom in Bonn for 40 to 52
Euro and one after the bloom; that had some effect:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&itemw66324186&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Good growing,
Bernhard.
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