Re: Amorphophallus titanum bloom - Cockrell Butterfly Centerat the Houston Museum of Natural Science

He is using the ethylene gas given off of the bananas to help the process it would seem. I myself have successfully used ethylene to force all my amorphophallus tubers to sprout at the same time. I did this last year. This year I did not do this so I could see of they would sprout at the same time or at different times. As of now mid August, I still have some that are just barely now breaking the surface of the soil.

However, I did not have success doing this to a.mulleri, it just ripened like a peice of fruit. Is smelled like a very ripe pinaple and just turned soft. Unfortunatly it was my only one so I cannot experiment further on a.mulleri




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--- On Sun, 8/15/10, Derek Burch <derek@horticulturist.com> wrote:

From: Derek Burch <derek@horticulturist.com>
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus titanum bloom - Cockrell Butterfly Centerat the Houston Museum of Natural Science
To: "'Discussion of aroids'" <aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com>
Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 4:53 AM

The results of this experiment will be very interesting to follow. I would have been very cautious about trying it since I would have thought ethylene is more likely to inhibit flowering then encourage it. An aging banana or apple certainly works in inducing flowering in bromeliads (and was the precursor of an ethylene (usually ethrel) treatment that is pretty standard commercial practice now to time a cropâs flowering), as many supermarkets who had the flower section next to the produce department found,  when their flowers aged and died prematurely.

 

Onward with science, and good luck Houston .

 

Derek

 

 

Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:22 PM
To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Subject: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus titanum bloom - Cockrell Butterfly Centerat the Houston Museum of Natural Scienceh sience

 

 

 

Aroiders,

 

I just came across this article (http://goo.gl/iaka) about using ripening bananas to help the bloom open and wanted to share. There is more info about the Center and the Bloom at http://goo.gl/bSA9. I searched recent emails from the list and don't see anything about this, but if I missed and am reposting, my apologies.

 

Best, 
Robert


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