what is this voodoo?

I may have a few bulbs to trade if anyone is interested? Just don't know the exact name.
I'm new at learning species names, so please bear with me., while I learn

Definitely a Sauromatum (or Typhonium, depending upon whose scientific nomenclature you follow), probably venosum. That was one of the very first aroids I ever grew (teenage years), and I got mine pretty large. Treated right, you can even get multiple large leaves in a single season.

Well, I need to know how to treat mine right.

It starts out with a pretty big stalk and then that one
will begin to droop and smaller ones come out.

Maybe the bulb is just not that big yet?

I have no isea how large these bulbs are but I just plant them and they come up. Are yours in the ground Alison?
LariAnn, Thanks will make a tag and fasten it out there and write it down too. Is yours planted in a pot? Mine does not
bloom every year that I see, but got the babies coming up all around. I have one group in a pot and am thinking of repotting
them. I love the leaves and their speckled stems. Thanks again.

I have bulbifer, konjac in the ground, each year there's more and more of them! I also have 2 amorphaphalus atroviridis in a pot. I love them! They get larger each year. I wish I had a Sauromatum as it's leaves get HUGE!!! I'd love to have a Titanum, but I think my neighbors would run me out of the neighborhood!

Marianne

I have, Paeoniifolius, Konjac, and Sauromatum Venosum. I got my paeoniifolius about 4 months ago and the largest stem was about as thick as a marble, now i can barely touch fingers when I wrap my hand around it, i bit larger than a golf ball i guess. I just feed them bananas and miracle grow tomato formula. I guess they are about 4 1/2 feet tall now. I was pretty amazed in 4 months. I can't wait to dig my big boy up this winter and see how large the corm is!

Won't you have to be so careful digging them up? Will it have pups? ? All I have is the one shown. Do you have a picture of him?
Do you put your bananas in a blender before you feed them? So many questions. I'm gong to have to try that next year. I will trade one of my babies for one
of your babies. Anyone interested?

I have my big boy in a huge pot. It has 2 stems which I think is pretty common for the Paeoniifolius. The do make pups like crazy but i just pull the pups out. I just throw whole bananas in the pot with the plant and let them rot. I heard this was good because they like Potassium. Not too sure but it gets rid of bad bananas. This picture shows the 2 stems a couple of weeks ago after one had just emerged. It is already bigger!

that is one way of getting rid of black bananas.
Nice plant.

Yeah, i have to turn the pot everyday because you can see the plant bending to the light. It will be curved toward the east when i get home from work... I will turn the pot 180 degrees and it will turn back toward the light. I need to move it into more shade i guess so it doesn't do that.

Durn, started a letter and after i checked to see if you had any roots coming out of that pot, it went into no-no land.
What I asked was-are there any roots coming out of that pot yet? Also that the Plant might like it where it is and
didn't want to be moved. You'd have to walk farther to put the banana on it. It looks happy to me.

I just rotate the pot, i don't move it, i just want it growing straight not bending. No roots, from what i understand the roots grow up and out of the top of the bulb. So the corm is deep down in the bottom of the pot. That is so the root system can support such a tall plant.

Very good. Never really noticed but I bet they are right. Hadn't thought of that.
Mine have started to turn yellow for the season. The leaves, not the bulbs.
Iusually let them winter outside. May have to bring one in and see what happens.

I have to rotate my pots too to keep the stem straight.
I have 2 this size, they are about 5" 5". The corms were 7" in diameter when I planted them. They weighted 4+ pounds.
Edit: Forgot to add that this is a Konjac.

This message was edited Aug 29, 2009 8:32 AM

Beautiful Plant! I really want the A. Titanum but I am going to wait until next season so I can get a greenhouse first. I wouldn't want to risk killing such an amazing specimen.

I've never had two leaves come out of a paeoniifolius, except where there were two tubers close together. The way they produce pups even in the wild it's not unusual to see them growing in clumps. I've got a titanum but still waiting for this years leaf to start showing.