Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Amorphophallus titanum finally makes a move, 0 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Yeah, talking about A titanum AND Hippeastrums on a Konjac thread, LOL.

My "baby" that refuses to go to sleep (at least it's not keeping me awake) is pushing on with that new leaf. The old leaf is looking a bit mottley. The leaflet I planted as a 'cutting" is dying off but has a small bulblet at the base, about the size of a garden pea. That's much smaller than a normal titanum seed, but at least it's there. I'll try a couple more later, although we're in the winding down period of the wet season now.

The mix in the pot (previous photo) is getting a bit old. I didn't get around to changing it last time. The bottom of the pot has lumps of limestone and coarse material, and further up it's more ordinary organic potting mix. I'd read that titanums in Sumatra are often growing in leaf litter on top of limestone. So I thought I'd try to emulate that situation. Seems to be good. But of course the big plant has managed to get through about 6 months without wind damage or the "sky falling on its head". That's a change from last year.