From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2005.03.06 at 02:30:02(12769)
>From: "Deni Bown" <deni@yaxhampark.co.uk>
>Reply-To: Discussion of aroids <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
>To: "'Discussion of aroids'" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
>Subject: RE: [Aroid-l] Taccarum offsets
>Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:11:17 -0000
Dear Friends, (Hi Denni!!)
My friend Bobby grows THE best Taccarums I have ever seen, he just has the
majic touch with these plants. His plants bloom every spring, and with
hand-pollination produce a LOT of fruit/seeds. His large plants have
petioles w/ a wonderful color, nicely thick, colorful and stout. His do
produce a few off-sets, but not as many as one would expect. A while ago I
wrote a tome about the corms/tubers of this genus. When one of his would
get to a really large size, we`d hope that the next year would really be a
record year w/ a super-large plant, but the tuber would always divide itself
along the mid-line vertically, producing two large tubers w/ a flat side on
each! During the dormancy period, these half-tubers would change shape
and color, by the end of their dormancy they would be much more rounded, and
if exposed to light would be a wonderful jade-green color, like a raw gem
stone, truly a dinamic tuber, even when one thought it 'dormant'.
Good growing,
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Julius>>Dear Michael,
Taccarum offsets very freely for me. I grow it in pots in a large
>conservatory which is part of our living space so at comfortable
temperature
>but relatively low humidity all year round and very warm when the sun
>shines, even in winter. It can be tricky to dry off as the leaves
collapse
>quite suddenly as the growing season comes to an end, and if the compost
is
>too damp at that point, the tubers rot easily. When the plants have
died
>down, I keep the tubers in the pot undisturbed and dry until mid-late
Feb,
>and at room temp - above 16C - when I repot them as they are just
starting
>to sprout. I treat Synadrospadix the same but it doesn't offset for me.
>
>It's interesting to hear that your plants do well without a pronounced
dry
>season. I imagined Taccarum would need one. Do yours flower?
>
>Deni Bown
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com
[mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com]
>On Behalf Of Michael Pascall
>Sent: 04 March 2005 05:42
>To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
>Subject: RE: [Aroid-l] Taccarum offsets
>
>I have been wondering if this sp. produces offsets . I have several
large
>seedlings from seed that Julius Boos distributed a few years ago , they
have
>
>grown very well here in the tropics .
>But I have not seen any sign of offsets yet . I noticed a few small
plants
>around the base of an enormous plant i saw at a garden near Mt Bartle
Frere
>.
>Michael Pascall,
>
>
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