[Arisaema-l] A. griffithii culture

[Gordon Tingley]

Hello David and others-

 

I agree that griffithii is an expensive one to purchase- especially if it just rots in the ground. Eventually I hope to have it growing here in Nova Scotia alongside Arisaema ringens and others. You are probably onto something with your thoughts about it disliking hot summers. A friend gave me a tuber of A. costatum, and I started it up in our unheated greenhouse a little later into the spring than I would have preferred, and all it did was send up a malformed growth which promptly withered in the extra warmth. Perhaps investing in some seed of Arisaema griffithii might provide a cheaper source of plants to test out, though the instant gratification would be missing here.

 

Jelitto Perennial Seeds has it in stock, and I noticed another site     rarepalmseeds.com    appears to also list it, though I have no idea of the site’s reputation.

 

Good Growing in 2014!

 

Gordon

 

From: arisaema-l-bounces at science.uu.nl [mailto:arisaema-l-bounces at science.uu.nl] On Behalf Of Mellard, David (ATSDR/DCHI/EB)
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:06 PM
To: 'Arisaema Enthusiast Group (AEG) Discussion List (and other hardy Aroids'
Subject: Re: [Arisaema-l] A. griffithii culture

 

>I posted some photos of a arisaema which one person has replied saying it might be griffithii and this clone does really well in our very mild wet winters. Low temperatures below 0 degrees C are rare here. Night temperature between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius are the normal in winter here

 

Please tell us more…..outdoors during the winter?  In pots?  In the ground?   You’re a Kiwi?  Well, that explains it.  I consider my Kiwi friends to be the luckiest people in the world and most can make a dead stick grow.  Your temperatures sound similar to Atlanta, although we get a little colder (20 F) but the ground doesn’t freeze much below a few inches.  From the little I know of griffithii, it grows in the Himalayas, so I imagine it has a cold, dry winter and probably doesn’t like hot summers.

 

David

Atlanta

 

 

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