[Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan

From: ku5 at yahoo.com (KATHY UPTON) on 2008.04.10 at 17:22:21(17368) Bernhard and Julius, The photo that Susan had is from 2001 and was a more "normal" flowering than the little one in 1998. The little one had a powerful stench and someone suggested that a tiny one might need to have a giant smell to accomplish its goal, but for whatever reason it smelled like a combination of sauerkraut, a rotting animal, and trash sitting outside in a dumpster in the sun that had been there a week. On the night that it opened at my house, we were sleeping with the attic fan on, and the smell carried right upstairs to us. The smell given off by the 2001 inflorescence was disappointing compared to that. You asked about the size of them now. The largest one from that seed batch has a leaf about 10 feet tall, and 25 pounds. The 2 that bloomed are near that size. I haven't always had the space available that they deserve and haven't always been able to move them up into the large pot sizes they would really love over the years, so actually they are probably small compared to those at other institutions that received the same seed. But they are healthy and have formed offsets, too, at times when I let one occasionally get too crowded in its pot. Cheers, Kathy +More "StroWi at t-online.de" wrote: Hi Kathy, nice to read that your tiny titan is fine (and I hope you as well) . Two more questions: Could you decribe the odor that maybe woke you up? ( I am still terrified when I think of my first albus flowering in my wintergarden. A mixture of sewage and rendering.Now they are only allowed to flower outside....) The people in the Botanical Garden in Bonn, Germany mentioned that titanum is not that bad and has a sort of fishy odor (but I forgot to ask how old that fish was....). What is the size of the tuber and leaf after ten years now? Happy growing, Bernhard. -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:29:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] St. Paul tiny titan From: KATHY UPTON To: Discussion of aroids Hi,Yes, I'm here! The tuber that bloomed when it was 3 years old hasn't bloomed again, but is healthy. A sibling from the same seed batch bloomed in 2001, both at University of Missouri-St.Louis, (although Julius is correct remembering how I took the little one home one evening so I wouldn't miss it opening, not wanting to spend the night at work. And it really sent its odor throughout my whole house at 3 AM! ). Since then there have been only leaves produced, proving how unpredictable the species can be. Would it be quite as unique and interesting if it bloomed like clockwork?! Jim Symon, if only you could be around now to see all the fun and excitement you created! -Kathy Upton _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080410/c405109b/attachment-0001.htm

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