RE: Amorph. growth after flowering

My clone flowered last year and the tuber has rested for an entire year. 
 It emerged from dormancy about four weeks ago.  As for the fragrance 
discussion, be thankful you apparently cannot smell many of these plants. 
 The level of stench is not overrated.  I flowered A. sumawongii last year 
and the little flower filled the entire 600 square foot greenhouse on a 
couple of mornings and could even be detected outside the greenhouse.  I 
also flowered two clones of A. longituberosus this spring.  One of them 
with a very small inflorescence had virtually no detectable odor, but the 
larger one was quite powerful.  The only difference I can see is that the 
odorless one had a very small female zone.  It will be interesting to smell 
this one on later, larger flowerings.  Two years ago I flowered a clone of 
A. abysinnicus and our neighbors wanted to know if I was using cow manure 
as fertilizer.  They could smell it in their back yard.

The last couple of mornings, A. fallax has been "perfuming" the entire 
terrace.  These little flowers are only about 3 inches long and the stench 
is so strong that our neighbor commented about something foul when he went 
out to run.  He was smelling it from some 75 feet away.

Ron McHatton in Atlanta

-----Original Message-----
From:	Piabinha@aol.com [SMTP:Piabinha@aol.com]
Sent:	Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:36 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
Subject:	Amorph. growth after flowering

hey, speaking of these stinkies, how long does it take for an Amorph. to 
put out new growth after blooming?  my Am. sumawongii's infloresc. has 
dried out for several weeks now but so far no new growth.

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tsuh yang in nyc
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