Re: Alocasia dormancy

From: "Gabe Thomas" CDANIELLE at prodigy.net> on 2000.03.09 at 03:34:35(4188) Thanks for the tip Derek! I wonder how the dry scales inhibit growth. Do you leave the growht point exposed so that it can receive light or do you bury the whole thing? Gabe +More cdanielle@prodigy.net ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Alocasia dormancy > I used to use tubers of an alocasia (more or less A. amazonica) as a > demonstration of dormancy in a plant propagation class. Someone had once told > me that the little dry scale leaves at the tip of the tuber were inhibitory > to growth, so I would carefully remove those until the little new > whitish/pinkish/greenish bud was exposed. Planted in my usual "interior > plant" mix, it usually worked like a charm - close to 100% starting into > growth in a few weeks versus perhaps 10% in the "control" unpeeled group. > > I do this as a matter of course now, and get good growth on most of the > common types that I have. All of this is in South Florida, so warm and wet is > a given for us unless we work hard to avoid it. > > Derek > > >

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