[Arisaema-l] A. griffithii culture

[kevinluff5092]

Regarding rare palm seeds. I have bought lots of seeds from over the years an have always had positive results especially if he lists it as a new item so seed will be fresh. I recently purchased some arisaema from and was not fresh seed but tortuosum and consanguinium have just started germinating. Griffithii nepenthioides and others have yet to start but I'm hoping they will soon. The things Iike about his seed is its all wild collected so there is a chance of some interesting variations


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From: Gordon Tingley <gordon at sleddinghill.ca> 
Date: 01/01/2014  3:06 PM  (GMT+12:00) 
To: "'Arisaema Enthusiast Group (AEG) Discussion List (and other hardy	Aroids'" <arisaema-l at science.uu.nl> 
Subject: Re: [Arisaema-l] A. griffithii culture 
 
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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