Re: [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros potting

My opinon is, that Helicodiceros and other aroids must be planted with the bud upright. Once I planted (3 years ago) Arisaema speciosum - which you may know - has got a spindle like tuber horizontally instead of vertically. It started to rot, and it also started to produce small offsets. (Discarded...)
 
Helicodiceros and Dracunculus has got a flat tuber. They grow in nature with the bud upright, because it is good for them. So if they will not rot because of the wrong position of the bud maybe newly forming contractile roots will pull it back into the right position (That is the main aim of contractile roots, to pull the tuber in the right depht and position).
 
Jani, Z5a
----- Original Message -----
From: samarak@gizmoworks.com
To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros potting

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, James Waddick wrote:

> One time I had some extra smaller tubers and thought I'd try
> planting them in the garden in some high and dry spots. All failed -
> or so I thought. Two years ago I was astonished to find a couple
> small whispy  leaves growing next to a dry log in  the hottest driest
> part of the garden. They have returned since, but do not seem even
> vaguely large enough to flower. This year we have gone down to -5 F,
> so let's see what returns.
>
> The fact that they even persist in my climate - Zone 5/6 and
> have been subjected to temps of 0 F for extended periods should
> suggest that they be tried in Zone 6 (Steve Marek, have you tried
> them?).

Hi Jim,

No, I haven't, but I certainly will after reading that, especially since I'd
already planned to expand one of the fill sand beds this year.

I know I got a "starter" Helicodiceros from someone on the list - the records
are probably on that same hard drive I've been vainly trying to pull 12 year
old Aroid-L archives from - but I never actually thought about trying it
outdoors here, which is unlike me. On reading this thread, I realized I haven't
seen it in the greenhouse for quite a while either, so the tag hunt and
excavation is on ....

Steve

-- Steve Marak
-- samarak@gizmoworks.com
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