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Re: [PRIMROSES] Jack in Pulpit blooming

I got my tubers from someone on the arisaema-l list.
This is exciting. I'll try to force another dormancy period in February to
see if I can get a 2nd round of bloom.  Am feeding them with fish emulsion.
Any other suggestions for fertilizers?

Diana Pederson, Zone 5, Michigan
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1945/index.html
http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/262
-----Original Message-----
From: Cidjohnson <Cidjohnson@AOL.COM>
To: PRIMROSES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <PRIMROSES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PRIMROSES] Jack in Pulpit blooming


>Hi Diana,
>
>You said:
>
>Does anyone else on this list grow these plants?
>
>I grow Jacks (Arisaema triphyllum) in my woodland garden.  I tried
>transplanting large plants from my grandma and grandpa's woods and they
>usually had a hard time adjusting.  Grandpa said it would be easier to just
>scratch a hole in the ground and put the seeds in (in the fall).  I've done
>that alot and have little Jacks all over the place now.  They aren't big
>enough to bloom yet.  Funny, I've never noticed the bloom before on the big
>plants,  just the bright red berries later.  Some of the Jacks in my
>grandparent's woods are about three feet tall and very impressive!  But
then,
>I love the native wild flowers as much as I love hostas.
>
>By the way, Cole Burrell's book "The Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wild
Flowers"
>says seedlings take several years to reach flowering size.  Did you start
with
>seeds or tubers.  If tubers, how did you get them? In "The Root Book" by
Norma
>Phillips, she writes:
>
>   "Set Jacks in small clumps spacing clumps some distance apart as they
are
>subject to a virus which is easier to control when only a few grow in one
>spot.  Any diseased plants should be lifted and burned (corms and tops).
Seed
>grows readily, just press it into the ground in soil as above [rich,
humusy,
>well-drained].  Corms or tubers also make offsets which grow readily."
>
>Cindy Johnson
>White Bear Lake, MN
>zone 4a
>
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