Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Is my Konjac "normal'?, 1 by Plants4myPots

Plants4myPots wrote:
I was given a corm about the size of a golf ball last December. I planted it here in Florida in March or April, and it sprouted and gave me a pretty little spray of leaves maybe a foot and a half tall. It was nice for a couple weeks, but then the leaves started to get brown and wilty, until they wilted back to the stem. Then the stem sort of just got slimy and mushy. I wish I'd taken more pictures, but I thought the plant was going to last longer than it did.

So I didn't know what was going on, and my DG subscription had lapsed, so I dug it up in August to look at it, and it looked so different! It was lots bigger, it looked like the original corm got eaten by the new one? There was a shriveled looking thing on the underside that I thought looked like the old one.

Anyway, I felt certain the pink spiked thing wasn't dead so I stuck it back in the pot - but I could really use some advice on how to make this plant perform again properly. I live in Central Florida, and it's getting to be winter - if you can call high's near 80 and lows in the mid-fifties winter. By January, it's more highs near 70 and lows near 50.

Since August, it's just been sitting in the pot of dirt in partial sun and getting watered well about once a week. I haven't fertilized it, because I repotted it in that pre-fertilized dirt, and I didn't want to be overfertilizing it.

When can I hope it will send out another leaf stalk? How can I make sure it happens? Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

This first pic is what it looked like before I planted it.