hey rootdoc!

I found a malanga in the store here finally! so you can keep that one or trade to someone else. You're a doll for thinking of me.
next time you think of me, think like this: Alocasia Macrorhizza
hehehe! if you do ever get another baby, let me know, please??

oh and... how do I plant the Malanga????

tiG it is 18º here,I'm ready to toss some ears in the truck and come down there to help you plant,I'm sick of the cold!!!
I would plant it like an EE,I like to leave just enough above the soil to get light to the bulb,even if it the size of a dime,are you going into the ground with it?or giving it a jump start in the house?

Yeah!!It just jumped to 19º!LOL

lol!! come on down! I'm going to start it indoors, it's about 6" long. thanks and I'll see you for lunch.

I'm bringin my tiller,if I don't get some dirt between my toes soon,I'm going nuts!!!

I can sure put you to work!!! I have to find something to work the brug seedling bed. I've moved everything out of it except for a few daylilies on the edges. Still have a couple of last years seedlings to dig up and get out of the way.

Thats not work!it a labor of love!I can't wait to see what you do this year,I'm so excited!!!It may be cold but I have seeds popping!!!!

Hey Tig, I didnt know what a malanga was, so I did a search, I thought they were a type of lemon from the philippines, but boy was I wrong, here is a little blurb I found on the nutritional quality of this plant... I'm thinking it must also have very spectacular foliage....

Malanga is probably the most hypoallergenic food in the world, so even persons with extensive allergies should do very well with this flour. The reason? The starch grains are the smallest and most easily digested of all complex carbohydrates. Malanga is closely related to the taro root, which is used to make poi, a cooked paste, common in Polynesian countries. Malanga and taro root are in the Arum family, Araceae. Malanga is also called yautia, cocoyam, eddo, coco, tannia, sato-imo, and Japanese potatoes. Malanga are about the size and shape of a regular white potato; they look a little like an overgrown gladiola bulb, because the outside skin of the malanga is brown and somewhat hairy.

Pebble.Have you seen a picture of the plant?we are not growing them to eat,LOL,at least I'm not.

I saw a picture of the root.....(the edible part) I didnt see a picture of the plant...I'll do a search for it.

no, I still couldnt find one, all I foun was the roots.

:) I like em http://davesgarden.com/t/372580/yautia

oh my g....WOW SA,
I remember you had a post about growing them, you had gotten a whole bunch of the roots, Is this what they are going to become? oh wow...You dont have any extras do you?
can you think of anything to trade for it?

pebble, first if you have a Superwalmart close, call the produce dept and see if they carry them. would be even cheaper than postage. Ours carry them but they were always out when I went. I finally lucked up.

Our walmart doesnt have a grocery center, but if it carried in grocery stores, I will look at some that might carry it, would Oriental grocery stores be more likely to carry them? I have one very close to me that I can check out. Thanks for the tip. You're right, would definately be cheaper than postage probably...

I have a case of them Pebble,but it so cold here,and I want to include live plants to the folks I'm sending to also,be glad to send you some if you can't get them,I'm just waiting for a warm up.we just hit 23º now,I'm ready for spring!!!!

I think it's more a Mexican dish than Oriental, but you could certainly call, cause what do I know?? LOL!!

tiG,were they reasonable in price there?I think mine worked out to .30 per.

I paid about that for this one. Great price for a plant!!!

Yes it is!!!I'll still get yours to you with your babies.they will look great with A Macro, IMHO

I don't want that! I don't want that! LOL rootdoc, when are you going to offer to come visit me??? LOL

Is malange the name to look for at the produce dept. at walmart? Does it come in singles or packages? I have to try to find me this one!! How do you grow it in full sun or shade?

malanga and they come loose. Looks like an elephant ear stretched out a bit.

Thanks tig.
Off to wallyworld I go.

tiG,I was looking at this post,it was 18º,today it is pushing 80º,at least it feels that way,I ran over the the GH and brought my Babies home.

Amazing.

Adam.

Adam,I was just thinking about you,looks too cool in your area for me to send yours?what are your lows?

Those are gorgeous. Hey, I just heard thunder here. Hope we get a nice little warm shower. Great plants Bob.

Amazing! The one on the left? Will it stay in that size pot?

You Two girls would have dropped your jaw like I did today,as moving the plants out on a cart,I saw pots of Brugs,only a few feet high,but they looked like a full flush coming,they were some he had cut and put in pots.He is like me,Novice!,all he could tell me was they were white,yellow,or peach.I did ask what he gave them,he told me,something called blast.thats the Brugs I'm talking about.
The EEs,the tall one is one of the first ones I bought quite a few years ago,short fat one is a baby from it.The one in the small pot is still not as big as the first one I ever ran across.So for me,I have to put them in the ground,I love to see what they do with my compost,digging up and potting will come later,!,someone pull this thread up this fall went I am cussing pulling them,LOL!!!It is my labor of love!
Root©ट©¬

Are these the same ones that you posted a picture about? In front of your house? Really amazing!

You know that one plant would take up a fourth of my livingroom. But, I'd give it up to have one like that. How long will it take mine to get that big? In other words, how many years old is it?

I'm going to ask Kim from Plants Delight tomorrow,I hope they have a record of my first purchase.could be five years or more.

very nice Root.......very nice!!

Hmmmm, one of those showed up in my mailbox along with some Brug seeds. he he he I wonder how many fluoro lights you can put in one room without blowing the circuits! LOL

Oh Root, now I have to go find one of those too. Wow, I love it! You are a bad influence on me. Guess I need to make a trip to wally world also....bye.

vredfish,send me your address,I'll send you one.

Hi everyone, Wow..Those Malangas are massive! I'll have to get one! Would they survive here in Ireland? Calocassia esculenta and Allocassia macrorhizos just make it but don't grow very much in our summers and the leaves stay small too! Any advise on getting them to grow?

Bruno

Bruno,These are Alocasia Macros,I am still working on the Malangas,Malanga seems to be slow to start,Do you have Alocasia?I will be happy to send you one!I can send a Malanga bulb also,maybe you will have better luck with it,tiG has your Malanga popped up?
Bruno,the other name Malanga goes by is Yautia,if you want to see big run a search for Yautia in PDB.
Bob

nope, mine hasn't come up yet. Hoping when it warms up a bit.