No subject

[Arisaema Enthusiast Group (AEG) Discussion List (and other=]

hardy  Aroids)" <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL> Aroids)" <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sender: "Arisaema Enthusiast Group (AEG) Discussion List (and other=
From: George Forsythe <geoforsy at AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Out In The Cold?
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20070924075135.026dc030 at pop.indy.net>
Content-Transf er-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

Jim,
I put the tubers in the fridge in a bottle with a little moisr potting
mix, and leave them.  Some of the tubers, sikokianum and now tortuosum,
have begun to develop obvious growth and so were now taken out and
repotted.

Some of the others, A flavum in particular, have shown no growth
restart even after over 6 months in the fridge.  I have about 24 of
them and so I took out a single tuber at 4 months and it just sat there
till I replaced it after 3 weeks out of the cold and it still did not
start.  I repeated this a 5 months also and again no growth.  I'm
wondering just how long it's going to take.

George
Landenberg, PA
USA

Learn something new every day.


-----Original Message-----
From: J.E. Shields <jshields at INDY.NET>
To: ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Sent: Mon, Sep 24  7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Out In The Cold?

Hi George F.,

Do you leave the tubers in the refrigerator until you see signs of
growth?  When I pull pots out of the fridge after 3 months or a little
longer, I sometimes get no growth at all.

Best wishes,
Jim Shields
in hot central Indiana (USA)


At 10:18 PM 9/23/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>I have not insinuated or proposed that there is a cold requirement for
>seed germination.  As a matter of fact, he only seed I have not been
able
>to germinate without such a treatment has been our local A triphyllum
>which may actually need one.
>
>What I referred to was the breaking of the dormancy of tubers which
had
>gone dormant after their first deason's growth after germination.
>Since my first note, I have also got growth restarted on A tortuosum
>tubers after 5 months cold storage.  I have several other species in
the
>refrig at present, and keep looking for a start of growth
>
>George
>Landenberg, PA
>USA

*************************************************
Jim Shields             USDA Zone 5             Shields Gardens, Ltd.
P.O. Box 92              WWW:    http://www.shieldsgardens.com/
Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA
Tel. ++1-317-867-3344     or      toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA

========================================================================
Search the Arisaema-L archives & subscription options -
http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/Arisaema-l.html

Arisaema-L HOME & GALLERY: http://florapix.nl/Arisaema-L

For help with this list, send an e-mail to the listowners at:
Arisaema-L-request at nic.surfnet.nl
========================================================================



________________________________________________________________________
Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! -
http://mail.aol.com

========================================================================
Search the Arisaema-L archives & subscription options -
http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/Arisaema-l.html

Arisaema-L HOME & GALLERY: http://florapix.nl/Arisaema-L

For help with this list, send an e-mail to the listowners at:
Arisaema-L-request at nic.surfnet.nl
========================================================================