Re: [Aroid-l] Arum - minimum temperatures

From: "Steve Ritchey" sritchey at shreve.net> on 2005.10.15 at 22:41:01(13450) Peter, Summer is the normal dormant time for all ten or so Arums I have in the ground here. The first ones I got many years ago were sold as 'summer bulbs'. I killed most of them by watering & fertilizing trying to get them to grow in the summer :) The foliage starts to yellow mid-June here no matter what the weather conditions are. I think this may be a response to day length like Alliums. At that point I stop watering and let them go completely dry & dormant for the summer and they always live to break dormancy and start growing with the autumn rains. Hurricane Rita woke them up a little early this year. Steve +More USDA Zone 7 Northeast Texas ----- Original Message ----- To: "Discussion of aroids" Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Arum - minimum temperatures Thanks, I'm afraid but there is no question of planting it deep enough. :-( I don't have any garden just a balcony were all the pots are standing. Seems that I have to place them inside when the temperatures are still droping. Strangely, most of the Arums and the Dracunculus began to grow at the end of August. They had a dormancy throughout nearly the whole summer. I bought them all this year. I don't know how they were cared during their 'dormancy before the era of Peter'. ;-) thanks Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- treeferns & aroids: http://www.baumfarn.at/treefern (http://www.baumfarn.at) --------------------------------------------------- Amorphophallus network: http://www.amorphophallus.baumfarn.at/ _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.14/130 - Release Date: 10/12/2005 _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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