Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (2483) Arisaema sikokianum hybrid

[Adam Fikso]

Al--  If you try sikokianum again, try giving  it more sun and better
drainage.  Mine have been around now for 5 years. They get about 6 hours of
morning winter sun.    They don't increase, but they haven't died, I don't
think in USDA Z 5a.  The sikotak hybrid gets about 2 hours more and more
direct sun--less broken up.  It's now 4 years old and is emerging about 4"
from the ground.  Soil is a clayey loam.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Wootten" <awootten at NRAO.EDU>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (2483) Arisaema sikokianum
hybrid


> Alas, I've planted Arisaema sikokianum several times but all plantings
> have vanished.  The hybridization approach certainly seems to have paid
> off in this instance.  Does anyone have a hybridization program going on
> or are the ari aficionados too small a group?
>
> Clear skies,
> Al
>
>
> jimmcclem wrote:
>> I have just uploaded 2 photos to the gallery of the descendents and
>> originals of a cross made by Roy Herold about 20 years ago, when only a
>> few of us had contracted the "arisaema bug".
>>
>> At that time people were falling in love with sikokianum and some of us
>> wondered why Roy was trying to "improve on perfection".
>>
>> However, it has become apparent to most over the intervening years that
>> while sikokianum is almost uniquely attractive, grows "like cress" from
>> seed and initially does well in the garden, it often is quite short-lived
>> and frustratingly disappears after one or two years.
>>
>> I think that you'll agree that the plant I posted the photo of is almost
>> as spectacular as sikokianum, and it and its siblings have been in my
>> garden since 1999.
>>
>> I'd add that Don Jacobs sold me a sikokianum/takedae hybrid in 1991, but
>> it has long since disappeared.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>>
>> JIm  --
>> Jim McClements
>> 50 S. Prestwick Ct.
>> Dover, DE 19904, USA
>> Zone 7a
>> 302-734-2836
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