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Ray,
My amurense from seedex last April put up leaves immediately, almost as
fast as the flavums sent me also. Pots allowed to dry up in August and
refridgerated by September. When taken out in January only about half
sprouted leaves since then! The rest of the tuberlets were checked below
the soil surface and were seen to have freshly grown roots and additional
soft immature tuber mass.
Hmmmmph,
BWM




"George R Stilwell, Jr." <grsjr at JUNO.COM>@NIC.SURFNET.NL> on 04/18/2001
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Eduardo,

Spoken like a true Arisaema enthusiast - seeds and plants in the frig,
food in the greenhouse.

Your A. amurense is doing what quite a few Arisaema do. It makes roots
and a tuber the first season
and puts up a shoot the following season. You don't have to refrigerate
it if the winter temperature
will get down to 10C for at least a month. Otherwise, refrigeration is
recommended. In any event,
refrigeration for 2 months and replanting will give you a shoot much
faster. Using a 2 month cold period and a 4 month growing period, one can
compress a season into 6 months giving 2 years growth in one year.
We've brought some Arisaema to bloom in 2 to 3 years using this
technique.

I can't remember which species exhibit the no-shoot behavior regularly,
but a search of the Arisaema-L
archives <http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/arisaema-l.html> will lead
you to a lengthy thread on
this subject. There's also some great advice on how moist to keep
Arisaema tubers when refrigerating them. Too moist and they rot, too dry
and they dessicate.

Ray
GRSJr at Juno.com

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