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Re: [SG] Arisaema candisissimum was: Good Companions

Thanks for the sympathy, Gene, and the good idea, as well as the hope.

Think I'll trot out there tomorrow and do just that.  I wondered at the
time, but was afraid to muck around with the tuber.  I sure hate to lose
this one, it is so lovely - and it was a nice big tuber/corm - whatever,
too.  Both this one and another whose name I cannot bring to mind were very
late emerging - much later than all the others.  The unknown one (there
*is* a tag, I just have to dig it up) has put up the most enormous single
almost round leaf.  I don't remember a leaf like that on any I planted.
I'm watching it to see what happens next!  Maybe, if I can keep two
separate ideas in my head until tomorrow, I can remember to also dig up
that label and find out who it is that's making this most fascinating leaf!

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: GeneBush <genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM>
> Date: Saturday, July 04, 1998 9:11 AM
>
> Hello Marge,
>         Sorry to hear about loosing a mother tuber on the Arisaema. The
one you
> have is one of the most beautiful of the bunch. I sounds from your
> description you have some life left in the mush. The only thing I may
have
> done different was to try and trim away as much of the mush as possible
to
> the firm part to the tuber and then sprinkle with rooting hormone and
anti
> fungal powder and keep it just a bit on the dry side in a pot until it
> recovers.
>         I had one of my three mature tubers of A. jacquemontii delay
emerging this
> spring. when it did come up the original mature bloom stalk was missing,
> but five new small stems arose. I don't plan on digging it up to look,
but
> my guess is the original bulb split and the center original mature tuber
> rotted out.
>         Just a guess... you probably still have a start of the tuber and
it will
> recover.
>         Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
>           around the woods - around the world
> genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
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