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sirdoofus · 03-22-2024, 01:37 PM

Excellent info, thank you. I have a similar situation with a matooke corm. The mainstem faded to nothing over the winter and being a little worried about it I pulled the corm. When I did, the corm was fine with 4 nicely progressing growing points coming off of it.

I wasn't exactly sure what to do so I put it back almost exactly as I had it, which is course material surrounding the corm with some regular potting soil below the course stuff, about 1.5-2 inches or so. I don't know if that is necessary or even a good idea (I read it on the forum somewhere and it sounded like a reasonable idea), I just figured the evaporation might maintain a little bit of moisture for the corm and it might provide a moister medium for the roots when they do get down there.

Hopefully I will see one of those points popping up above the surface soon.

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sirdoofus Location: Central Vancouver Island, BC Canada Find me on the map! Zone: AgCan 7b, USDA 6b Name: Mike Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 1,094 BananaBucks : 38,887 Feedback: 1 / 100% Said "Thanks" 3,236 Times Was Thanked 1,286 Times in 637 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 98 Times	Re: Corm refusing to grow Excellent info, thank you. I have a similar situation with a matooke corm. The mainstem faded to nothing over the winter and being a little worried about it I pulled the corm. When I did, the corm was fine with 4 nicely progressing growing points coming off of it. I wasn't exactly sure what to do so I put it back almost exactly as I had it, which is course material surrounding the corm with some regular potting soil below the course stuff, about 1.5-2 inches or so. I don't know if that is necessary or even a good idea (I read it on the forum somewhere and it sounded like a reasonable idea), I just figured the evaporation might maintain a little bit of moisture for the corm and it might provide a moister medium for the roots when they do get down there. Hopefully I will see one of those points popping up above the surface soon. __________________ Who keeps calling me nuts??