Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Titanum offset?

From: "E.Vincent Morano" <ironious2 at yahoo.com> on 2011.01.26 at 19:17:33 I bought one of your titans from you on eBay Jude. The extra leaf was just feeding the same corm and eventually fell off.. At one point in time, I had over 100 titans that I bought from EGF Orchids. It was like $50 for 10 of them. I waited for them to go dormant and sold the dormant corms and made a killing on them. I would start bidding at 99 cents and they would often got up to $70-$80. My best customers were from Europe but I digress. What Im getting at is out of those that had 2 leaves none of them had off sets. HOWEVER a few did end up having 2 corms growing in the same pot! The seeds in those cases grew to be twins was the explanation I was given as there was supposed to be only 1 seed per pot. My seeds were collected from a wild population in their native country. At the time I did it, It was just a money making venture so I sold them all. I refuse to participate in the recession, Erin Vincent Morano --- On Wed, 1/26/11, santoury@aol.com <santoury@aol.com> wrote: From: santoury@aol.com <santoury@aol.com> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Titanum offset? To: aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 5:58 AM =0A=0A The question is, where did you get the tuber? I've read a lot of controversy about some sellers selling "fake" titanums. I get mine from Tindara Orchids which is a very reputable seller. =0AAll of mine had multiple leaves, but have not dug them up yet  -  maybe I'll find some offsets too? Who knows! =0AJude =0A =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A -----Original Message----- =0A=0AFrom: Jason Sarine <jasondsarine@hotmail.com> =0A=0ATo: aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com =0A=0ASent: Sat, Jan 22, 2011 8:46 pm =0A=0ASubject: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Titanum offset? =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AWell here is some food for thought. I dug up one of my titanums that was going dormant to repot today and imagine my surprise when I found a second smaller tuber alongside the main one. It had a small second leaf all summer but I imagined it was just feeding the main tuber as I thought they did not divide or offset, but here we are.  Now I pose this question. The seller I bought these from grows their stock from seed. Could some genetic diversity have actually created an offsetting titantum? I guess another growing season is in order to see if it holds this trait.  Bye now. =0A=0A =0A=0AJason Sarine =0A=0A =3D=0A=0A =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l =0A =0A=0A =0A=0A =0A=0A=0A -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l =0A=0A --0-905422763-1296069453=:50327-- --===============4758423113063522320==

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