RE: Tacca questions (off topic??)
- Subject: RE: Tacca questions (off topic??)
- From: H* W*
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 11:14:06 -0500 (CDT)
My Tacca chantrieri sets seeds. I have had some success getting them to
germinate. It seems to take forever for the pods to ripen. Out of the 8 or
so seedlings I have only a few seem to grow readily even though they are all
being grown the same. They like to be wet but mine don't seem to like
standing in water.
Harry Witmore
Cloud Jungle Art
www.witmore.net <http://www.witmore.net>
-----Original Message-----
From: aroid-l@mobot.org [a*@mobot.org]On Behalf Of Steve
Marak
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 1:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
Subject: RE: Tacca questions (off topic??)
On Sun, 26 May 2002, StroWi wrote:
> The plants marketed here in Germany by www.Tacca.de are cloned in
> vitro since no seeds set was reached so far (as far as I know...). It
> is said that the donor plant is male sterile, however, I do not have
> any proof of this. Is male strelility known in Tacca (chantrieri) or
> could it be a self incompatibility mechanism as well?
>
> Speaking against the latter is the observation of a list member whose
> single T. chantrieri sets seed (or does the neighbour grow a different
> genotype???) However, the seeds I got did not germinate yet after
> months; but that seems to be a pain in the ...(O.K. some where further
> down) with Tacca germination anyway.
There used to be an Aroid-L'er from New Orleans, Lousiana, here in the US,
who I met through Phil Mueller. He had Tacca chantrieri seedlings coming
up all over his yard - I think he actually mowed the unwanted ones, which
horrified me.
Phil sent me several of the seedlings, which I promptly killed, then sent
me a couple more, which I killed more slowly. In both cases, I apparently
failed to keep them wet enough - I was told that I should pot them in
"Mississippi mud" (heavy, poorly aerated soil that reminds me of black
clay) and keep them WET! If I manage to get another, I will.
Steve
-- Steve Marak
-- samarak@arachne.uark.edu
