Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My Amorph current state of affairs - winter, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
The first of these photos shows the hole left by the previous season's petiole and the new shoot coming up through it. Second is the flower the tuber in the earlier photo produced (it was planted into the ground). And then there's a couple more I had growing in the ground.

The trap with that hole left by the old petiole in a garden situation if you are watering through the winter is when water goes down the hole it gets caught in the hollow of the concave top of the tuber. During dormancy that's enough to rot out the tuber. Which is what happened to my largest one. The other trap with having them in the ground, as per the last photo, those two were so bound up with tree roots that I ended up spading them trying to get them out. The damaged tubers did grow again though, and one even produced a flower that following season.