Things came up

[Adam Fikso]

Henry.  I had one saved (tentatively identified as omeiense)--It dried out,
I remoistened it, it was growing nicely when I checked it--next day a
chipmunk ate it or carried it off. :Possibly a squirrel or raccoon, but I
see the chipmunks being altogether too industrious

I think we've had sufficient anecdotal observations recently to confirm that
these ae not only peculiar, but tough plants, that shouldn't be thrown away
or given up on unless they've liquefied or evaporated.  Set them aside and
treat them as they might be in their native provenance  .   I've dosed a
couple of damaged tubers with aspirin to assist them, along with a dose or
two of hope, and will wait for next year.
Adam in Glenview, IL    Z 5a



Original Message -----
From: "Henry Fieldseth" <treehugger53ah at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Things came up


> I bought a bunch of tubers from China last fall.
>
> As predicted, most of them rotted.
>
> Several of the ones listed as /Arisaema sikokianum/
> did make it. Someone here tells me they are really /A.
> engerli/; the flower while purple and white lacked the
> impressive "golf ball" of the true /A. s./.
>
> Only one of them bloomed for me, the others dying back
> before flowering.
>
> One of them, who grew a leaf then died, stayed in its
> pot and was forgotten. Last week I dumped the
> dried-out pot to see what was there. I found the
> shriveled bulb with a live bud on top of it.
>
> Does that mean that the ones that turned to mush may
> have had a bit of living tissue that might have formed
> a new bud underground? Maybe I shouldn't have dumped
> them so soon?
>
> It gives me hope that some of my failures might come
> back in time....
>
> A tiny one that was pictured next to a cigareete
> lighter on Chen Yi's website miraculously survived as
> well.
>
> I left those bulbs in the packet they came in and
> stored them in a root cellar. In March I potted up
> most of the root cellar stuff, but missed the little
> ones.
>
> Then in June I found a plastic bag on the porch that
> had green inside. The bag had the roots for the little
> arisaema, a few gentians and a squill. The squill was
> growing in the bag. The gentians had all rotted to
> nothing. But the little arisaemas looked great, with
> elongating sprouts.
>
> I planted them in 50/50 peat/sand and they've come up
> nicely. They're about twice the size of those pictured
> but still cute, no flowers yet.
>
> I had given up on my /A. dracontium/ when all of a
> sudden there is all four feet of it where I hadn't
> seen it two days before.
>
> I've added a couple different /Pinellias/ to my garden
> this spring. /P. tripartita/ has just started blooming
> this week; /P. pedatisecta/ was bloming when I got it.
>
> My seed-exchange packet arrived last week. Should
> donations to cover postage go to Ray or Erik?
>
> --Henry Fieldseth
> Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Zone 4-5
>
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