Growing Arisaema

[Rand Nicholson]

>Hello Jim
>
>>>Have you really seen arisaema tubers rot on the bottom and then survive? My
>>>experience is that once rot sets in, the arisaema is a goner.
>
>It is sometimes possible to save them, or if not the main tuber, at least
>give them time to form off-sets if the species does, by cutting out the
>rotten parts and dusting with sulphur powder.   I had a badly rotted tuber of
> A. intermedium in a pot, discovered to be rotting when I took it out for the
>winter last November, which I dried off and then potted up last spring.
>  This month I looked again and while the old tuber had gone completely three
>offsets had formed from it.
>
>This has happened in previous years (I cannot remember which species were
>involved - Himalayan certainly) so it is worth giving it a try.
>
>Simon Wills.

Just to be sure: We are not talking of the natural sloughing away of the
old tuber's growth at the end of the growing season? As in: "rot on the
bottom."

Rand


Rand Nicholson
New Brunswick
Maritime Canada, Z 5b
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