Re: Amorphophallus Chlorophyll missing?

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Hi,

I wonder if you can graft the nonchlorophyll parts to a normal plant? If you can and they can produce seed, you might be able to obtain a lot more of the same.  We did this for albino tobacco.  The seeds were fertile and produced more albinos.  We also put the albinos in tissue culture to keep them going.

Just a thought.

Sorry for my ignorance about grafting.

Thanks

Jon

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From: Neil Gordon
Sent: Apr 20, 2010 9:07 AM
To: Discussion of aroids
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Chlorophyll missing?

Mine were an ebay buy, sold in 5 as well, from a company I cant remember the name of, in the USA, maybe we bought them from the same batch? I had 8 seeds in total, all fine except that one. I kinds suspected it wont survive, but a curiosity while it lasts! Thanks Neil --- On Mon, 19/4/10, David <onimua@gmail.com> wrote: From: David <onimua@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus Chlorophyll missing? To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Date: Monday, 19 April, 2010, 14:21 Neil, Out of curiosity, where did you obtain your seeds? I recently (well a few months ago) had a single A.titanum seedling do this as well out of a batch of 5. It didn't seem to produce a tuber during this time for me while the others did, and I had taken it out of direct sunlight for fear of it getting burned by the sun. I'm not sure if it had anything to do with it not producing a tuber, mainly because I'm unsure it could. As far as I had understood it, these albinos will eventually die (I believe the "Shattered Glass" A.konjac variant produces a number of albino offsprings that live for the season, but die without making a tuber). It was just odd as I had never heard/seen of it occurring with other Amorphophallus species; not to say that it doesn't happen, just that I personally hadn't heard about it. The albino A.titanum I had eventually died with barely a recognizable tuber, but I knew it wasn't going to grow. I don't know if you can feed enough nutrients through the soil to get it going, but because of how much is produced by the leaf, I would suspect feeding directly through the roots won't be of much help. David -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l