Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Amorphophallus titanum finally makes a move, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Considering we're going through the coldest winter on record the A. titanum is very brave. It's about 2 weeks ahead of the last time it grew. And that was an average winter. But it's finally broken through the surface now. So the pattern has been to grow for a full 12 months and then a dormancy of 12 months. Don't know if anyone else has had the same experience. I read somewhere that the dormancy can go on for a few years. Glad mine didn't.

My seedlings were first planted in December and are still going well. So I'm now expecting them to go dormant this coming December.

Todays photo of the larger A. titanum emerging.