Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Amorphophallus titanum blooming - Live webcam, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
I had my A. symonianus in a garden bed with A. paeoniifolius, A. prainii and A. bulbifer. They got early morning sun, good filtered sun through the day and shade late afternoon. But later the A. bulbifer started to show a bit of stress so I put a 50% shade cloth overhead. (So, tree canopy plus 50% shade cloth.) They all did well regardless.

The A. titanum is in a pot but also under trees getting good filtered sunlight, stronger late in the afternoon. It started showing signs of stress when it got hot. So I put a sheet of 'plastic tarpaulin' over it and it came good. Towards the end of summer (wet season) I removed the tarpaulin and it's still been going well right through winter.

I've mostly fertilised with liquid seaweed/fish, occasionally a sprinkling of DPM (densified poultry manure) and on the odd occasion a generic NPK 23:4:18 with added trace elements. They also got one sprinkling of Superphosphate during the season. I might add that a month or so back some birds started roosting in the tree above the A. titanum. Its leaflets are getting a lot of bird droppings on them. I suppose it all counts.

Mine were all on automatic irrigation, morning and evening, except the A. titanum. It was on automatic once every 3 days during summer (wet season) and now in winter (dry seson) once every 2 days. When it comes to A. paeoniifolius, in nature they often get totally submerged for days at a time during monsoonal flooding. They seem to thrive on it.