kaczercat

Is that what the actual name is.Thank you. I know it as devil something, or corpse flower.

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cincinnana

yes sir, same type plant

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cincinnana

Here is the link to the most recent thread

The thread has a great continuation of posts.

anyone growing amorphophallus?

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cincinnana

Wow...many of my plants want to pop due to the consistent higher temps (55 instead of 40-) for this time of year.
Containers are kept in the garage near the doors where it is cooler.

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cincinnana

I had inadvertently cut the corm in half last October and stored the corm in a five gallon bucket along with a few others..

The corm sprouted a month ago.

This corm was ready to go.......... I planted it today in a 10 gal container,
I used Espoma bulb booster and Espoma tomatoetone....

Konjac corm
by
Hostafarian,
on Flickr

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RRedBBeard

I've had great results with amorphs by adding a little bone meal to the potting mix when repotting, maybe a teaspoon or 2 in a 10" pot. Ever try it? What other amorphs species do you grow?

--Rick in CT

cincinnana

I love to use Espoma products for ariods/ariseames....lots of bonemeal and other goodies. These organic products seem to have all the good stuff for this type of plant

I have a woodland garden with a few of these ephemeral/ short lived plants while others do not show till mid June.
Here is a link to a few pics...just planted some bulbifer corms and urishima corms today.
I am a hosta junkie also.
Hostas
They inadvertently decided it was time to flower in January and now they are dormant again....so new fresh soil for them.
I had some Arisaeme Ringens and Arisaeme Grithiffii bloom prematurely also due to the warm temps in the garage.....a treat in January.

For me these plants are awesome.

I tried to acquire a few more from this vendor but they were sold out of a few which I wanted........my name is on the list..for next year.
Soules Garden, Perennials
I am happy to see someone else interested/growing in these fantastic plants.

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Zacarias

I love amorphophallus and would love to grow titanum and the one that Zac shows in the photo of the one he got from Plant Delights. I've dabbled with konjacs for a few years but this is the first year that I'm trying bulbifers. I am mostly into the amorphophallus tubers that you leave dry at the end of the season as opposed to the more tropical ones but I would be willing to try titanum. We'll see.

Zach

RRedBBeard

Cincinnana--
You mention a hosta addiction--I have a common hosta (?) seyboldiana, a large, strong grower with glaucous leaves. A great ground cover here. Also, I traded last summer for a division of hosta 'mito no hana', which is a pretty cool striped plant. I think it was a sport, not a hybrid. Anyway, here's a picture of it a few weeks ago, assuming I added the picture correctly. If there's no picture visible here, copy/paste should show it.
--Rick
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqep4xl9f8...0hana.jpg?dl=0

luisport

And you can eat hosta shots, leaves and flowers! Cooked or raw. In Japan are very apreciated.

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Musa Rajapuri, D. Brazilian, D. Orinoco, Pisang Ceylon, Da Jiao (Himalayan Fruit), x Fruit, Himalayan Mountain, Helen's Hybrid, Patupi, Lacatan, Hajaray

Paw Paw Sunflower, Prima 1216, Potomac, KSU Atwood, Jerry's Big Girl, Al Horns, KSU Chapell

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-small-...-orchard/19936

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-pear-collection/55683

https://growingfruit.org/t/my-apple-collection/53104

André Troylilas

I am growing Konjac and paeoniifolius for food, and because they look really exotic to me.

cincinnana

Great trade...I had seen that plant which is a decendent of H. sieboldii at a hosta function .
Beutiful plant at the beginning of the season but I have not seen one in the green stage yet late in the season..
Pop off a pic when yours goes green
The plant is a must have.

What did you trade for it....car, house, first born?

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cincinnana

Konjac will not wait.

I had five of these plants (bulbs) @45-degrees for 6 months..
Then I moved them to indoors for a month @68+- and they all pushed a flower, except one of the which mushed.

However...the mature ones I have outside year round will not produce a flower or foliage till June.

Plants that are outdoors will not push till very late spring




Konjac can't wait by
Hostafarian,
on Flickr

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RRedBBeard

Here's a pic of Mito-no-hana from early August, still showing pretty good stripes. Sorry for the crappy picture quality. It also produced a bumper crop of seed, presumably crossed with h.seyboldiana ~20 feet away. If I can find them, you're welcome to some, but you may have to stratify them for a couple of weeks. Maybe the seeds' 2nd generation will be interesting? That is, the seed of this seed....hopefully this link works:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pobk257a8a...50846.jpg?dl=0

I think I traded a nice offset of a.konjac 'shattered glass', which is a pretty good door-opener. Here are a few pics of last year's foliage:
*https://www.dropbox.com/s/qksz2rog0a...20Z17.jpg?dl=0

*https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwdcbvhc6p...20J17.jpg?dl=0

*https://www.dropbox.com/s/loqh3j41mm...20Q17.jpg?dl=0

*https://www.dropbox.com/s/100xgo8370...0Lime.png?dl=0

This one was 39" x 46" last year. Can't wait to see what it does this year! https://www.dropbox.com/s/nrjpy77ydz...42118.jpg?dl=0

cincinnana

Both of those collecter plants are amazing.

It will really be interesting to see what traits the seeds keep.
The hosta is a showpiece....looks like it's doing well.

The Amorph....wow.
I had not seen one .
I had to read up on that chimera.
Seems the neat part is that it has unstable variegation .
I wonder what the flower will look like?
That one is a keeper for sure.
I hope it gives you many offsets.

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RRedBBeard

Which ones are you referring to as collector plants?
They do flower and produce seed, although mine haven't yet, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions about these plants. There was a good thread on the subject a couple of years ago, and I'll have to see if I can locate it.

cincinnana

This might be the thread you were speaking of I wish they could be combined.
This is a good one.
anyone growing amorphophallus?

Shattered glass and Mito-no-hana were the cool/collecter/don't have plants I was referring to.
The shattered glass is just amazing.

There is always room in the pot for don't haves

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cincinnana

I was out checking on my amorphs and was wondering how yours turned out after a few more years of maturity.
Did the varigation hold true?

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Johnsk9

Yes I had this for 30 years

cincinnana

Amazing plant...

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