Re: [aroid-l] upcoming seed harvests

Just let me know, Alan...I'm itching to get some seeds going again...b.f.n
and TIA, deb



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Galloway" <alan_galloway@ncsu.edu>
To: "aroid-l" <aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 7:30 AM
Subject: [aroid-l] upcoming seed harvests


> Folks,
>
> It's been a very good year for aroids blooming, especially the
> Amorphophallus, and the
> Typhoniums are just now coming into blooming season.
>
> After photographing the Amorph blooms, I'm cutting off the flowers from
most
> species,
> so they won't set seed and drain the tuber of enery.   But for a few
> species,  the pollination
> attempts appear to be working.  I'm hoping to get seed on the following:
>
> Am. saururus
> Am. sizemoreae
> Am. saururus X Am. sizemoreae
> Am. sizemorea X Am. saururus
> Am. saururus X Am. 'reflexum' ( a new species that I've nicknamed becasue
> the spathe reflexes)
>
> I expect to have a good harvest of Synandrospadix vermitoxicus seeds this
> fall as well.
>
> Also a huge seedhead of Arisaema maxwellii (the whitish flowering form) is
> developing nicely.
>
> So for those of you that like growing aroids from seed, start saving some
> areas on your benches
> when harvest time gets here.
>
> Alan
>
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