Pardon me AA-
I am the EE Patrol and due to circumstances beyond my controll, I must take all your rare,expensive and coveted EE's away from you.
You have the right to remain silent and to help me dig them all up. :D
LOL
That half n half is just really nifty!
Stunning EE's.
Elephant Ears - Tricks of the Trade !
LOL, That actually happened once, in Hawaii !!
OMG! LOL. Wasnt me I swear! *muhahhaa*
I want a Black Magic to go in my vegie garden of my pond.
I got on last years Co Op and ordered two each of several ones and not a single one survived after transplanting. They were not bulbs but slices. Come fall someone remember this when they start dividing or digging up some. Will others work in a pond?
Alocasia....I have a question about your albo....how does the white area of the leaf hold up?? Reason I ask is because it's so white, there is obviously to chlorophyll running through those veins ...lol.....sooooooo how do they stay white like that?? Inquiring minds want to know...I know that plants that are variegated do fine...but what about the half white?? I need to know!!! splain please?? Debra~
Very Good Question. And..I'll try my best to answer it. The Chloriphyll located in the green part of the plant is enought to provide food for the plant. Under harsh conditions, the white part of the leaf is naturally more suseptable to: sunburn, mildew, disease & pests. Young seedlings should be grown under floursent lamps (100+watts) They will lean towards the light. But the light produces about 10x less radiant heat than the incadescent bulbs and about 100x less that radiant heat than a spot of sunlight hitting the leaves. The white part of the leaf does not TRANSPIRE water as well and will dry out quickly, and since a plant is 95% water, the leaf will be smaller, note on my picture of the Mac Albo the leaf has curvature to the left (Go Look). Thats because the left white part of the leaf is actually SMALLER than the right green part, hence causing the curvature in that direction. Now, notice on my Monstera Albo photo(Go Look), there a 2 leaves in that photo, each one actually curves in the direction of the white half of the leaf! Whether it be curving to the leaf OR right it doesn't matter.. Thats because the white part of the leaf is actually thinner does not replace water as well as the green. Once the plant is larger the surface of the leaf becomes wider and thicker, allowing for a more acceptable margin of error in the sun evaporation department. Remember the young pups naturally pop up near the base of the mother plant, which produces shade for them, until they become hardy enough to survive a direct blast of sunlight that may peirce an opening in treetop canopy above. This is not an easy plant to maintain and by no means something to start learning from, because of the usually hefty price tag. But once you learn to LISTEN TO PLANTS you can understand what they say to you, like Dr. Doolittle. For example, if the plant starts to lean towards a window, its saying "Hey Gimme More Light". If it's leaves turn yellow its saying "You're drowining me dude". An so on and so forth. there are many different signs a plant can "tell" you, and once you learn them all you can anticipate thier needs and preferences, whether pertaining to soil, moisture, humitidy, lighting, sunlight, location etc etc. I have some 4 foot albos acclimated to survive a direct blast of sun for one hour each day without any visable damage to the white part of the leaf. In dappled sun my smaller ones are thriving on about 5 hours of small spots of sun hitting the leaf per day.
Albos are quite rare to begin with, not to mention the fact that they cannot be tissue cultured because they usually come up all green.
See my post in the tropical forum about how to bulid a shade house.
This message was edited Jun 11, 2004 9:32 AM