Pinellia / Reply

[genebush at MUNCHKINNURSERY.COM]

Jean,
Pinellia should give you small blooms in the second full year from
seed. On occasion the third for sure. Certainly look best the third year
onward when they have a chance to produce offsets and form a clump. With
these times I don't see a reason to hurry up the process with Pinellia
as in the Arisaema.
I live on the zone 6a, 5 border and have had Pinellia for years
now. I do mulch with chopped leaves each fall and that is the only
attention they receive. Stands on all species in the garden are about
three to four feet in diameter. We do not get much in the way of snow
cover here...just temperatures that run up and down like a yo-yo.
Gene Bush     Munchkin Nursery    Southern Indiana     Zone 6a
genebush at munchkinnursery.com
AR>I received seed of P. tripartita and cordata from a seed exchange.  How long
AR>take to reach blooming size? I let my Arisaema spend a 3-month dormancy in t
AR>refrigerator before replanting indoors to speed up their growing cycles.  Is
AR>option with Pinellia?
AR>I had some about 15 years ago (I forget which species) but must have started
AR>and must have just planted them outdoors.  A few bloomed for a year or two a
AR>dissappeared.  My Zone 5a climate may have proven fatal in a year with littl
AR>cover.

AR>Jean Halverson sw Wisconsin where the temperature finally dipped below 0 but
AR>about 3 inches of snow fell a few days earlier.