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Brood and small tubers are rather difficult or even impossible to distinguish. Otherwise, larger IG tubers tend to be smoother and do not get so-called feet so quickly.

As for the size of the tubers, my biggest normals weighed just over a kilo. But I know of one here in the forum of about 1.5 kg (with brood tubers) and one of just over 2 kg. At the IG Bernhard regularly has tubers around 9 kg (always with several large brood tubers partly with > 1 kg) and in one year he had probably even cracked the 10 kg (unfortunately weighed only in spring).

Size of the flowers: My two normal venosum with about 1 kg had a flower of about 85 cm in height, with the flask overhanging and longer than the spatha. In addition, there is the stem, the length of which depends strongly on the light and heat supply. In an IG with 2.3 kg last spring, the flower was about the same size. Since the size also depends on the tuber size, there is still potential for more at IG.

Hi Martin,

since I haven't had the normal shape for a long time, I can't write as much about it as Mitstkäfer, but IG and others from the trunk (mold circle) can actually be distinguished from the normal form early on by the leaves; the individual segments / "fingers" are significantly wider in IG than in the normal form; take a look at the pictures in the threads...

Happy growing, Bernhard.

Moin,

The style drawings are also different, with the Wild Form having a much grained stem
has. As I said, the leaf segments in the Wild Form are much narrower and more pointed.

I attached two photos, I hope you can see a difference. Once the IG in the pot and the wild form which is just unfolding.

Greeting Lukas

All common form, no giants like Indian Giant (also called IG or Indian Giant).

In comparison, it is not so much the external dimensions of the leaf that are huge in IG, but mainly their leaf area and, as a result, their tuber size and weight. Of course, an IG with the appropriate size will eventually have blades with larger external dimensions, but this has never been the case with me before.

My largest IG with a harvest weight of 3.3 kg has only reached just under 1m in diameter this year thanks to heavily overhanging leaflets, while one of the two normal ones has a leaf diameter of 1.10 m with just over a kilo. If the IG would spread its leaflets as nicely as the normal form, that would probably be at least 20 cm more. However, the strongly overhanging pinnate leaves may seem to be in full sun, because the IGs located elsewhere do not show such strongly overhanging leaflets. Besides, it's only this year that it's so extreme. However, this does not seem to be due to the size alone.