Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Amorphophallus prainii dilemma, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
My Amorphophallus prainii has gone dormant, but it seems too early. There's still a few months of growing season left. It was fully grown when I bought it last year. Had to travel in the car for a week before getting home so it was knocked about a bit. That was last September. A few weeks back I noticed some yellowing on some of the leaflets. Then slowly it did a normal end of season die-back. This was around the time when we had a very distinct lull in the wet season.

I've dug it up and the tuber looks okay (weighed in at 16 grams). Because we've still got quite a bit of hot humid weather ahead I'm not sure whether I should put it in a pot with soil to see if it's going to sprout back. September it was fully grown so must have started in the cooler months. I don't know much about prainii, don't even know where it comes from.

Over the last couple of days I've noticed my A. bulbifer is getting a bit of yellowing on the leaflets. Looks like it was affected by the drier spell as well. Some of the bulblets on the leaf are quite big. The paeoniifolius and titanum are still chugging along merrily and not looking like they're after an early retirement.