Your konac "black stem" is named that way because the petiole is a
remarkable color? If you are putting together a box for me later this
season, and you wanted to include a small corm or an offset or two of that
then I'd be happy to compare its growth to my own konjacs of similar
corm-size.
-Ken Mosher
"C. J. Addington" wrote:
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> I had a few people comment on my Amorphophallus konjac, suggesting that
> I must be exaggerating their heights. Seven feet? Surely I jest! But it's
> true! I have this one strain (race, variety, subspecies?) that I call
> "black-stem" that I have grown for years that is just huge. I planted one
> 9-pound corm in a 25 gallon clay pot in May, and I can now walk under the
> out-stretched leaf blade upright without brushing its underside with my
> hair. All I can see looking up is the bottom of the leaf. Granted, some of
> the height is the pot - I'd guess the corm is sitting a good 18" off the
> ground - and I am no giant (I'm 5'6") - but this is a big plant! I would
> have to stand on a ladder to even see the top surface of the leaf. When this
> same corm bloomed in March, the flower was as tall as me.
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