just j
12-06-2008, 04:53 PM
about a month ago i received a 3 foot african red and a velutina from aloha tropicals both plants the pstems dried up and rotted off at the ground level i dug up the corm and they r hard yet and have a bunch of white points growing out of them about the size of a fifty cent piece around i think they r new stems that r gonna emerge i have them planted in side in huge pots in the entrance way of my home in front of frnch doors and large windows under grow lamps and i only water them maybe once a week if that to avoid root rot. are they rotting or is this normal???? i live in wisconsin so it was kind of cold when i got them in the mail about 35 degrees is it saft to have corms shipped to me in winter or should i wait till spring cause now it is below zero and we got lots of snow also im looking for a large thick mat of african red with lots of pups for a very larger planter in my house i cant wait years for mine to get invasive someone please help me i have been looking for the african red for awhile and now it going to hell on me and im stressed right out lol