Re: [aroid-l] Funny Amorphohallus titanum leaf

Tissue culture - aha! - could be a factor in this baby leaf formation?  I've
grown Amorph. titanum from seed and from tissue culture plantlets and the
root system looks different for the first growing season or two...tissue
culture plantlets don't develop typical tubers but produce masses of roots
the first season; the typical tuber usually doesn't take shape until the
second growing season...it is amazing to see the "tubers" at the end of the
first season, anything from rock hard little nuggets to thin flat disks to
nubs of callus with whiskers of root hairs.  Another thing I've noticed is
that t.c. plantlets grown out in ground beds form tubers faster (and of more
typical shape) than plantlets grown out indoors in pots although ones grown
indoors in pots have more top growth (i.e. leaf and petioles are larger)...
Petra


----- Original Message -----
From: "StroWi" <StroWi@t-online.de>
To: "aroid-l" <aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Funny Amorphohallus titanum leaf


Marc,

Thanks for your comment!

Do I get it right, that your A.titanum offset startet with a small leaf like
the one shown in the last picture in the gallery?
(http://www.aroid.org/gallery/strolka/index.html)

If so, how long did it take that the offset split off the mother tuber?

Good offsetting,
Bernhard.

<mburack@mindspring.com> schrieb:
>
> Mine have done this....
>
> Historically it "has been" an offset.
>
> Moreover 2 of my young gigas plants have done the same thing and they have
> been offsets (for a plant which generally is considered not to).
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> On 09 Sep 2002 21:43 GMT StroWi <StroWi@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > Aroiders,
> >
> > A friend of mine noticed a small leaf at the
> > base of the joungest petiole of his
> > Amorphophallus titanum and he hopes that it
> > belongs to an offset. As far as I know A.
> > titanum does not grow offsets, but I want to
> > get some feed back from the list about this
> > small leaf in order to tell him what the
> > experienced aroiders think about it.
> >
> > Scott kindly put some pics in the gallery of
> > the IAS site for me in order to illustrate my
> > request.
> > Everyone who is interested please have a look
> > at:
> > http://www.aroid.org/gallery/strolka/index.html
> >
> >
> > Looking forward to any comment!
> >
> > Good growing,
> > Bernhard.
> >
> > Dollbergen,
> > Germany
> > approx. zone 6/7
> >
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