tiny titan in St Paul

From: Gareth.Hambridge at rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au (Hambridge Gareth) on 2008.04.15 at 21:02:21(17393) Your tiny titan may have flowered because you kept it so dry during dormancy. As mentioned in a previous post, we often leave our larger corms out to dry for several weeks. A small one may possibly be induced to flower by extra dry dormancy conditions??. I was speaking to a botanist at Bogor Botanic Gardens in Indonesia last year and she told me that it is quite common for small flowered titans not to open their spathe fully. Gareth Hambridge +More Horticulturist, Sydney Tropical Centre, Botanic Gardens Trust, Royal Botanic Gardens, Mrs Macquaries Road SYDNEY. NSW. 2000 AUSTRALIA Tel: 61 2 9231 8190 Email: gareth.hambridge at rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au Website: www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au Botanic Gardens Trust is part of the Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW). This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and are not necessarily the views of the Botanic Gardens Trust. -----Original Message----- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:21:26 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: myeakel21 at earthlink.net Subject: [Aroid-l] The tiny titan in St Paul To: aroid-l at www.gizmoworks.com Message-ID: <26936263.1208204486909.JavaMail.root at elwamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.ne t> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello All! I am finally getting a chance to catch my breath after the whirlwind of activity surrounding the Titan last week!! Just an update as to how the story ended! BOB was placed in our former gift shop area on April 3rd. There are no greenhouse controls in this area so the room was either too hot, too cold and too dry! So the next bloomer will stay in a greenhouse! The inflorescence maxed out at 28 1/2" tall! Only half of the spathe was formed. The spathe never opened fully so there was no measurement of width taken. There was lots of aroma when we came to work on April 9th at 7am. The strong smell lasted through the day and really tapered off the next day about 11AM. Even today, there is still enough scent to remind me that the plant is back in the greenhouse! In hindsight, I think that I kept the corm too dry during dormancy and the environmental conditions were challenging in the Parlor area where it was displayed. This plant was started in 1993 from seed collected by James Symon. This plant also was in a smallish pot, that ended up breaking. There were two corms in the pot---BOB was 25 lbs and there was a second corm that was 13 lbs. The 13 pounder has not broken dormancy yet. They were both transplanted on Oct 31 2007. Thanks for all the historical info! I am hoping to look at it in depth when I get a chance! margaret To see a timelapsed photo, please check the Como Zoo and Conservatory webpage. There is a gardeners blog. Happy growing! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This email is intended for the addressee(s) named and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and then delete it immediately. Any views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender except where the sender expressly and with authority states them to be the views of the Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW).

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