[Aroid-l] Amorphophallus from Thailand

From: gschnu at gmail.com (Georg Gschnitzer) on 2007.11.02 at 12:50:50(16643) Hello, I bought 5 tubers of Am. atroviridis this spring and had no "extended dormancy" problems. They were offered on ebay and came directly from Thailand via air mail. 4 of them were flowering this year, so I hope they will bring out leaves in 2008. One of them had a very badly damaged shoot, but after a while (I think it was July) the shoot restartet to grow and made no flower but a leave, which is still alive now in November! I think these bulbs from Thailand can be bought, but it is a little similar to the problems discussed here concerning the Turkish ebay seller "ladybotany" - the sellers from Thailand use stolen pictures...., but the big difference is, that you will receive your plants! In the meanwhile I bought Amorphophallus bulbs from 3 or 4 Thai ebay-sellers. I never had any problems, all tubers arrived in a good state, sometimes even with the phytosanitary certificate. They have very low shipping costs, and the prices for the plants are moderate! The only thing I hope, is they do not run into their forests and dig out everything they find, because of the momentary "Amorphophallus-Gold-Rush". Best wishes Georg +More 2007/11/2, John Ludwig : > > I have seen a few species of Amorphophallus from Thailand offered on > eBay lately. > > A friend told me that he had purchased some in years past and that > quite a few did not break dormancy for more than 18 months after he > purchased them. > > Has anyone had similar outcome's? > > I am hesitant to purchase these tuber's. > > > Thank you all for any information you are willing to share. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20071102/ce088604/attachment.htm

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