Re: [aroid-l] growing tip of Alocasia

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

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