I was talking with Brugie the other day,we were wondering about when to plant the bulb,she said hers had started to grow,I called AnnaZ,to ask advice,I had put mune in a shopvac filter box and tossed it in the back of the basement.
This is what I just found when I checked it,the box was closed to store it,LOL!
Wow, yours is much taller than mine. I've only got 2or 3 inches of growth. Someone tell me what to do.....
I'm going into a pot with mine,I will put it in a sady spot down stairs.
A sady spot or a shady spot. LOL!! I thought I read someplace that these can take sun outside. I've got to go look them up again and get this all straight in my head.
LOL,Remember I have one swollen finger!!!
I put my Colo ears and ferns under my light table,so they have to reach for light.
I do not think this VooDoo is a sun plant,I am sure it will take full light,I am out of full light room,so if this guy wants to pop up in winter,he will have to do with a sady spot!LOL!
OOOOhhh Rooty, You do that Voodoo so well ;-D
I am zone 8B & mine would come
up & die back when I had them planted in the ground. I dug them up & potted them up in the
GH & they about to bloom again,
they bloomed this past July.
I think the flowers are so beautiful.
Honeybee
does that voodoo plant grow dead chickens root?
LOL,Lisa,I think it was heading for the fridge to look for leftovers!I know DW Monica is gonna be scared when she sees it!She keeps saying,'That thing ain't right!'
HoneyB,I love them too,bloom and leaves,heck I even like the stalk.
I've got 3 little baby bulbs someone sent me in a trade, I had forgotten about them they were planted in a small pot, in the garage/greenhouse. they are about l/2 in around, that's how small they are, two of them are sprouting, wondering if they will amount to anything?
kathy_ann
Root,
Your right the whole thing is
pretty. Lisa, just had bring
up the Chicken thing, she has
been spending way to much time down on the bayou.
Honeybee
Brugie, I think you better go stick yours in a shopvac filter box for awhile. ;)
Can't remember what kind of box mine are in, but they are packed with yesterday's news. Anyone heard of that? Froto sent me the bulbs and that is the wildest material. Looks like rabbit pellets made from compressed newspaper.
Look what I found: Amorphophallus riverii'
or Voodoo Lily
is a bizarre and unusual plant. It's native to the tropical regions of Asia and is a relative of our native Jack-in-the-Pulpit.
The voodoo lily flower emerges from the bare bulb in late February. It's dark purple and shaped like a huge calla lily. Bulbs need to be about 4-6" across (3-4 years old) to send up these blooms. The aroma is quite fierce because it's fly pollinated in the wild.
After flowering, (late March or April) the bulb can be planted in a pot for an early start. Within 4-8 weeks of planting the foliage stalk will start to grow into an umbrella-like canopy.
That sounds like it to me,mine has put on some since coming out to the light.
I can't remember now if it was Arsenic or Evert or Kyle or maybe even someone else. They said they grow theirs in gravel or something, no soil. Those are such fantastic plants!
All this talk made me run up and dig mine out of storage...good thing I did....,now what do I do with it?
LOL!!These things are sneaking up on us!!!!!I'm not sure,I guess I am going to pot mine.
Gosh Karyn, you have a bud ready to open. Get ready for the rotten meat smell. LOL!! Please post a picture when it opens. This bulb has me very interested....
goodgrief crestedchik, LOL I didn't realize they'd grow without dirt. shows you how much I know about them. LOL do all varieties smell like rotted meat,
kathy_ann
Guess I could put it in the kitchen..Chuck will think the garbage needs to be taken out......
OMG, what a great idea. No harping for at least one day. LOL!
Hey, I like that thought, DH would be saying, to DS, it's time to take the trash out, man somehthing in the frig is rank! don't you ever clean the frig woman. LOL
kathy_ann
I grow a dragon lilly ,quite similar to a voodoo,Its planted
outside and comes back every year bigger and bigger,thats a gold dollar piece on the leaf to give you an idea of the size of this thang,smells like rotting meat.
Don, that is an amazing bloom. Your bulb must be getting huge. Does it throw pups too? Could make a real stinky place if it is. LOL!!
OMG Karyn, what did you do to that thing?? LOL I like the idea of putting it in the kitchen. ;)
Um Don, I know you said YOU are harmless, but what the heck is to the right of that plant???
I had my bulbs upstairs in a unheated bedroom...supossedly being dormant.....
it was in an empty bucket along with about 10 other smaller ones...no dirt.....I do see where some of the smaller ones look like they are about to start....
Should I pot it up?
Hey Don,
Why do mine (which look like yours) come up & die back (without blooming) in within weeks of sprouting?? But have bloomed 2 times this year in pots & are ready to bloom again in the GH. Mine came in a trade from Ca. She said her multiplied like crazy in her yard, so far mine have not.
Honeybee
Bseed,thats just a black scorpion!!!Plastic!!!Grandkids few yrs back saw those disney bug movies,wife bought a bunch of big bugs to place in Garden to give grandkids something to play with..
Brugie,it just keeps getting bigger,one of these days it will probably have puppies!!!I got this in a trade from England,not even hardy here but I mulch real good!!
Honibee mine gets full sun,does yours?I understand these rot easily,are you over watering maybe?
I feed mine heavy too.
Here's a pic showing how long it got before even opening.
Don,That is a Monster!!!
Hey root,and it had two flower,off the same stem.
Look to the right on next pic to see second stalk
I saw that,I really like the leaves on these,I am getting rady to pot mine up,I have been working on more lights this morning.keep me in mind too,if this ever goes nuts with babies!!!I like it!
Don,
Mine was getting morning sun when planted in the ground, I just water during dry spells. It was really weird, one day there would be a stalk with leaves that would be 10
or so inches tall, the next wilted & dying. A few weeks later the same thing, I just got tired of watching them die & potted them up. They did fine after that in the GH. I am zone 8B so I know it was warm enough.
Honeybee
we never pot em till after they bloom....when the flower withers then just barely cover the surface of the bulb and start watering....Oh! and root..it will SMELL like DEAD chickens when it blooms..maybe thats where the chicken thing came from!LOL LOL
Thanks Kyle,good to see you here!!
Great to see you here Kyle. I'm glad to hear how you pot yours. I had read that they needed to be around six inches deep. I'll do it your way since I know you have had good luck. Thanks.
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You won't be able to stand to have it in the house on the first day it blooms. Maybe not even the second. when mine bloomed I had to take it outside. It stunk up the whole house. It was 45* out when mine bloomed. In the spring I just planted it outside. They have lots of babies by fall. I just dug mine and put them in a bucket put them under the bench and forgot about them till close to spring. I didn't let them see light or warmth or mmoisture till It was warm enough to put them outside when they bloom. They have strange tropical foliage . One fall I just didn't dig them. I keep thinking I will get another one some day. There kind of fun to have.
Linda
