Amorphophallus

[snapperhead51]

 these great plants do stink a bit when  in flower, some like a  decaying rat for a week  but other than a bit  of  nostril  discomfort for a short  time  there extremely rewarding plant to grow ,great in  the G/h















they  flower first when  the  tuber is mature enough  , then if  its not  pollinated  it dyes off and  the tree form grows , just unbelivable  , have had  the  seed on  one  spike  form  over 2 seasons  and still shoot  up a tree form , have tubers and seed available  if any one wants  some 

John

[muscipula]

That's amazing I've contemplated about getting a titanium in my soon to be conservatory .

[snapperhead51]

great plant too slow to flower though

[Dennis Z]

Looks fantastic John. I have some a.bulbifer tubers coming in soon and its going to be my first time growing the genus. I do have s.venosum, which is quite similar though.How difficult is germinating the seed?

[snapperhead51]

Dennis, seed if fresh is very easy to germinate, choose your grow mix and just place just under the top few mm , only and keep water up to it , if fresh germination is usually only 2 to 4 weeks , seem thousands of these on my trips in jungles but never in flower, only in tree form ,so great to flower my own Evey year . amorph love lots of fert too , more the better, high nitro too , once a week heavy fret the tuber can grow 5 times is size in a few months get 1 with low salts though ok
John

[Dennis Z]

What mix do you use? I use a mixture of worm castings:peatmoss:perlite:sand ( 3:1:2:2).

[snapperhead51]

just a high grade potting mix is all I use , they grow in very poor soils in wild , like a lot of leaf matter compost in the jungles . not in swamps at all , usually on higher well drained soils .
John