Re: [aroid-l] Amorphophallus amputation?

From: "harrywitmore at witmore.net" <harrywitmore at witmore.net> on 2004.06.16 at 16:41:10(11628) I had something similar happen last year. A sort came through and caused a leaf to break of at the surface of the tuber (planted to shallow). I took the leaf and placed in a jar of water with Sphagnum in it and forgot about it. The tuber eventually sprouted a new much small leaf before it went dormant. I ran accross the leaf in the fall and it was still green to my surprise and when I removed it from the jar it had formed 3 tubers at the base of the leaf so I suspect there was some tuber attached to the leaf. I'm trying the same think with A kuisianus this year to see what happen. Original Message: +More ----------------- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:53:57 -0400 To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu Subject: [aroid-l] Amorphophallus amputation? I have a question about untimely amputation of an Amorphophallus leaf. Let's say a perfectly innocent Amorph has been happily growing and minding its own business. It's had time to form a new tuber of some size but isn't done its growing season - and then a malicious creature comes and chomps off the leaf and exhumes the tuber (but leaves it alone) and the poor tuber sits on the ground all exposed for a few weeks. (The malicious creature *could* have been a squirrel whose own growing season was cut short...) Is that tuber going to want to be replanted to grow a new leaf or will it want to stay dormant until the next growing season? -Ken Mosher -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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