growing tip of Alocasia

From: piaba <piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2004.03.19 at 21:09:39(11305) hi all, just a small question... i have a pot of Alocasia sp. Corazon (forgot the latin species name) which had two growing plants. one went dormant, and it's been like that for a while. today i peeled off a bit of the top to reveal the growing point. unfort. the top seemed hollow and dried out and i kept peeling more, until i broke the tip, revealing a firm and green stem. will something grow from this stem even after i broke the growing tip? +More tsuh yang __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

From: "Derek Burch" <derek at horticulturist.com> on 2004.03.19 at 23:18:16(11306) I always peel all the dry scales off, even if they start off looking like a normal tip. I go down until the nice green or red bud is fully exposed. I have some slight experimental evidence from a propagation class that I taught that these scale inhibit growth until they have been soaked for a long time. We did the experiment for several years of classes, with consistent results of more rapid growth from peeled than unpeeled. I never tried making an extract of the scales, though, to see if I could inhibit anything with them. Derek +More -----Original Message----- Behalf Of piaba Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:10 PM To: aroid-l Subject: [aroid-l] growing tip of Alocasia hi all, just a small question... i have a pot of Alocasia sp. Corazon (forgot the latin species name) which had two growing plants. one went dormant, and it's been like that for a while. today i peeled off a bit of the top to reveal the growing point. unfort. the top seemed hollow and dried out and i kept peeling more, until i broke the tip, revealing a firm and green stem. will something grow from this stem even after i broke the growing tip? tsuh yang __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

From: Dan Levin <levin at pixar.com> on 2004.03.20 at 01:59:54(11307) tsuh yang, Due to the requisite delay in messages posting, this may come after a flurry of responses and be redundant. But at this moment no one has replied, so... In my experience with Alocasia cultivation one of two things are likely to happen, assuming the stem of your subject plant isn't subversively rotting from the bottom/ up (alocasias have a nasty habit of doing that sometimes!): 1) The apical growing point will continue to expand and develop new leaves, despite your snapping off the tip. 2) The break point was too low and a side-shoot(s) will in time dominate and grow out. Best of luck! -Dan +More p/s- fyi: all plants received from you many moons ago are doing well here in the SF bay area! piaba wrote: > hi all, > > just a small question... i have a pot of Alocasia sp. > Corazon (forgot the latin species name) which had two > growing plants. one went dormant, and it's been like > that for a while. today i peeled off a bit of the top > to reveal the growing point. unfort. the top seemed > hollow and dried out and i kept peeling more, until i > broke the tip, revealing a firm and green stem. will > something grow from this stem even after i broke the > growing tip? > > tsuh yang

From: piaba <piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2004.03.21 at 02:15:45(11313) hi derek, dan, > 2) The break point was too low and a side-shoot(s) > will > in time dominate and grow out. +More i think that's what it's going to happen. i wasn't sure if the tuber was still there or had dried up, that's why i was peeling off a lot of the top and ended up breaking it. the stem is still green and firm. > things are likely to happen, assuming the stem of > your > subject plant isn't subversively rotting from the > bottom/ up > (alocasias have a nasty habit of doing that > sometimes!): my main problem with Alocasias seem to be tubers that go dormant and then shrivel up, dry up and never come back. just lost another A. reginula that way. not sure what the problem is. thanks for your help. tsuh yang __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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