Re: [aroid-l] A. konjac questions

From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" <mmarcotr at email.smith.edu> on 2004.06.24 at 12:47:06(11668) You can cut it off before it happens with no harm to the plant. If you let it go indoors you'll have a week of really terrible odor. It happened to me once by mistake when I had a large one in the onion cellar. When we awoke one morning we thought a animal died in the house. The dog was alive so we knew it was konjac. When they want to flower they do it much earlier than the normal time the leaf emerges. For me in Massachusetts it happened in the onion cellar in April when it was still freezing outside. +More _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall >>> chazmg1@citlink.net 06/23/04 07:52PM >>> I am hoping that next year my konjac will bloom and I am concerned about when this will occur. Living in Minnesota and with everything I have heard and read I do not want this to bloom indoors. Is there a time of year that konjac will not bloom before? Is there a way to delay the bloom? If I miss this and the unexpected does happen how quickly will the smell leave? Thanks Charles

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