Re: anyone growing amorphophallus?
Got a few Amorphophallus specimens myself; one A. titanum grown from seed, just under a year old right now, has just gone into a slight hibernation period following a trip. Corm on that one's a little bigger than a golf ball; they don't seem to grow too quickly, but underground they're powerhouses if you feed them properly.
Three A. bulbifer specimens from a guy in India (who's provided some of my other exotic seeds as well, though these were all corms); one of the three I thought had died last year, as the corm had shrunk down to the size of a large pea (it was probably about as big around as a penny when I got it), but earlier this month it sent out a super-tiny new leaf. Hopefully it makes a full recovery.
Finally, one Amorphophallus specimen I'm not entirely sure about; it was part of the aforementioned group sold to me as A. bulbifer, but its current leaf actually looks far more like A. konjac. I'll have to take another picture of it at some point, but I'm preeeeetty sure it's not A. bulbifer.
Love me some Aroids.
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