Tropicals & Tender Perennials: What is this, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Kell, your problem might not be so much from water itself as cold water. They (A. paeoniifolius) grow here beside rivers which flood constantly during the wet season. I've often got back to plants when floods recede to find the stalks and leaves covered in silt. This washes off with subsequent rain and the plants thrive despite having been submerged for a number of days. But the water and soil is relatively warm, usually 26C or more.

I don't recommend flooding yours but keeping that temperature up I think is important. When they're dormant and dry, a bit cooler doesn't matter so much.

I only have one A. titanum which unlike A. paeoniifolius is looked after very carefully. It's in a free draining organic mix and gets watered by an automatic sprinkler only every 3 days plus whenever it rains (it's outside). It's been growing constantly for 9 months now and doesn't look like wanting to go dormant any time soon.

This photo is of one of those A. paeoniifolius that goes under flood water regularly.