Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Does anyone grow Amorphophallus 'konjak'?, 0 by lupinelover

lupinelover wrote:
Me! I have had it for 2 years now.

Last year I received small bulblets that I grew all summer. They went dormant on me in late summer. I dried them out, cut off a few bulblets, stored them in dry peat for the winter. Then in April I soaked them in lukewarm water for a couple of hours, put them in pots of compost, watered them, bottom heat, and they sprouted in a couple of weeks. It did take them a couple weeks after they broke the surface for the foliage to open.

I hope next year they bloom! I keep mine in pots of compost that are half-sunk in water. They grow very fast, very big that way.

Here is a photo taken last summer, a couple weeks after the bulblets sprouted.