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Gigantomanen,

here:
small Amorphophallus gigas
I had end last and this year offered little gigas.

I would like to hereby suggest that those who at that time got speeding tickets in this topic / thread about exchanging their experiences.
I am of course very curious, how fared you with the nodules.

Myself I now actually quite good experiences with the art, although it is considered often too difficult.

In brief my culture conditions:

Substrate: standard soil (70% zersetzter little white peat, 30% clay), perlite, Holzkohlengries (0-4 mm); approximately 1/3, but sometimes less charcoal, lately more often pine bark (7-15 mm)

Temperature:
in the living - room temperature (approx. 20 ° C, chilly at night)
in the winter garden: on a heating pad in the foil tent approx. 22 ° C; outside the foil tent will it in the winter garden at night ever up to 16 ° C cold

Location:
rather partial shade, but in the winter garden the plants sometimes from 13:00 to sunset get full sun.

Fertilization of course regularly!

Rest period: warm in slightly damp substrate or slightly wet / damp Sphagnum / peat moss

With these conditions my biggest has a bulb diameter of 5 cm now; the height of Leafs of the plant was recently estimated at 70 cm and the diameter of petiole about daumendick.

This tuber currently stocked in slightly damp Sphagnum and hope that it soon is root and drives off.



Some plants grow in the Berggrten in Hannover and 2011 looked:



It of course some pn / personal messages have been replaced after my offer here in the Forum, but I'd appreciate it also briefly reported, so that all of the experience can Prof animals.

Happy reporting, Bernhard.

very nice corms bernard !! sigh..i as yet only have titanums,and hewetii..i want to add the other
2 tropicals to my collection.. gigas,descus-salvae.. there are a few growers in USA..not as many
enthusiasts as in europe.. lucky u!!!

Hi Bernard,.

then, I want to make the beginning of time.
The story of your parking is quickly told: the plant moved in a few days of receipt and there it has remained until today.
The nodules but still alive, I looked it up just now.
I think it is moist in a mixture of Sphagnum and soil.
The whole thing is in a winter garden in the winter during the day approx. 20 ° and at night 18 °. The humidity is around 50-60%.
The temperature range from m.E. as A.hewitii (I think it is even slightly more sensitive than A. gigas) grows slowly, but so far without any problems.

What I've found so far is that some species began to drive out only in autumn and via their rest period had the summer - even if I had received the tubers with the shoot.

A. should exorcise gigas (when ever) I will report here.

Many greetings
Ortwin

Hello

My 2 year 3 have become.Have all made 1 sheet, but aground root lice, with which I had to fight last year, are then drawn up.
In the spring the 2 larger ones are driven out and little later then the 3.
In the summer, stood at the window and have then full sun from noon.
Now this winter, with many other species, which are expelled through the summer all to late, they are MH lamp on a heating mat under a 400 W.
The 2 torment now have your 2nd hand and the small grad gets hers.
But the leaves under artificial lighting not so nice look like under Sun-grown.


Love Ronny

Hi Bernard,.

I started this summer with 3 gigas. 2 friends and a third, which I bought myself shortly thereafter.

My gigas are with the other tropical species in an indoor greenhouse at approx. 20-25 ° c and ca 50-70% humidity. You have warm feet through the floor heating.

Two of the three are indented. To leave one of them without a tuber. I had unearthed about 2 weeks after the pulling them, but there was nothing more. The second has left behind a 1 cm tuber and makes a good impression.

Number three is still in the growth and has made a few weeks ago a second sheet.

Fertilized is more or less regularly, partly with a N stressed fertilizer (Ferty 1) and sometimes accented with a P (Peters professional plant starter). Also, they are regularly sprayed with water.

Greeting
Andreas

Hi Bernard,.

also my plant is still alive, she shoves just your fourth hand at me and looks good. Have they in the room see LSR are, like all young plants of tropical species. Unfortunately she had lost in the meantime on substance, I failed even to make it as a new page came, it grew on the lamp and burned in a higher section. Fortunately, she has quickly recovered and increased in size (am curious how much is the current sheet).
My conclusion is that it is actually quite good grows with sufficient light and heat. If you don't like something it is quickly offended, A. gigas belongs next to A. hewittii to the species that I've lost several times already in the past.

VG Philipp

My small gigas lies precisely in Sphagnum. Their vegetative cycle can be good through the word described "a vegetable"... Somehow, I have no good hands for this type. The tuber is expelled after receiving well but again pulled it after a few weeks, as was the next sheet in the starting blocks. The plant was also never properly fixed in the substrate and the result was accordingly after repeated move and re-emerging: tuber growth = 0. When the tuber has become even greater, the plant forms a sheet that she immediately loses and the tuber is therefore totally tiny.
I've tried already different site conditions, with or without heating mat 20, 23 or 26 ° C is no matter to you, also, always the same problem.
Compared to gigas titanum and John is totally Tan me not so around the bitches. Even my hewittii grow better... Well, it can halt work not out. The other gigas gardeners wish much success!

I've been using gigas absolutely no Erfolg.Alle previous tubers grow poorly and chatting away in the end. I give up with the art.
Other rare species that grow better fortunately did

Gigantomanen,

Thank you for your feedback about how gigas so far fared you with the small.

Without that I will go into all individual contributions, shows once again that the successes are so very different - because many questions remain open again.
Starting with Fatemeh nodules that Los would not grow over the plant, apparently for some members but easily grow, until going to Oldis gigas, the languishing away.
Especially odd, I find again the comparison with hewittii, which grows not well with me, but at Oldi and Ortwin...

My baddest gigas (see amount #41) apparently does not a long rest period:

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I have transplanted it again and it is situated in the living room at 20 ° C; because of underfloor heating is rel. Humidity only around 50%.
Time look what happens next...

I would be glad if you didn't mind owning gigas up-to-date this issue also with the development of your.

Happy growing, Bernhard.
P.S.: ...vielleicht takes his camera René also once again in the garden...

Up to 4 cm diameter of tubers I got also it but then they all are scruffy. Currently, only a 70 cm high Decus-silvae plays of your exotics.

Hello together,
I've gotten gigas by Bernhard last year in December. Unfortunately, the package for the Christmas season was very long unterweg!
After the gigas hard gekälteschockt the blade all lost, I did actually no hope me at the tiny tubers.
I still put it in the Earth, easily covered the pot, placed in a warm corner and 'forget'.

A first small Gigas then put the tip of the Earth against end of January!
I have them built a cozy mini greenhouse with 10W of led lighting and because they push now properly! Partially, already the third sheet is that then definitely no longer has in my mini greenhouse space. Earth is nothing special, but a good drainage layer is in there. Temperature is between 23 and 30 degrees

End of February:
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something offtopic though; I wanted to not contain an image of my snake pit in the basement before you
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I hope so quietly that evolve the gigas!
LG
Stephan

Hello Stephen,.

Your snake pit I like very much -it looks probably, if we no longer know where with the thick tubers...

Your Knitterkonjac you sent had me for the gigas, asleep, but that is already...

Well look the gigas

I was initially somewhat puzzled by the distance of the lamp to the MInigewächshaus, until I read that there is a LED lamp.
Is there somewhere, what light color and how many lumens lamp has?

Happy (further) growing, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

Yes, that distance was otherwise planned! Have not expected that up to shoot!
The led is a cold way; According to the description of 6000-6500 Kelvin and 600 lumen.

I'm very excited about, what Papa knitter and the breed this year's doing!
LG
Stephan

Hi, everybody, I read again and again that the tropical giant with the exception probably of titanum like a certain size go down, often for some unknown reason. I'm now a mind game. In nature, comes the heat from above and decreases with increasing soil depth. The larger the tuber, the deeper it goes down in the cooler. If only by a few degrees, so it cooler. We heat from the bottom and evaporation cool from the side and from the top when even clay pots in the game are. If one now would make the following pot on styrofoam Board to, after down not too much temperature minus plastic pot (and that of my mouth where I am but a clay pot fan) occurs to the lateral evaporation cool stop and heat only from the top, that might help? In the context I wants to measure times the soil temperature at various depths during my next visit of Thailand in three places. So surface four inches deep in twenty and forty centimetres in the Sun in partial shade and in the shade. And of course in moist soils. Interested in time. But maybe I'm Yes also in addition with my reasoning. V.G. Matthias

Congratulations!

It is - at least by the types that I have in culture, the "unpredictable" because they still faster than A.titanum or A. decus-silvae reflected drives out. If you wait too long with the "inspection" of dormant tuber, it may be that after 4-5 weeks an impressive network of roots to the fore comes - including an impatient tip!

How do you cultivating your tubers with regard to substrate & fertilizing?

Greetings,
Terramarine

This year, I got my Gigas.
The second hand is a lot stronger than the first, but just as high.
Lack of alternatives I put that _Markt in ordinary soil from the "Bieber".

What has proved so far: instead of normal plant rack or trivet an orchid pot or a glass vase.
You can see Right away when roots come out below and the drainage works also Very good. I looked up the trick of Basil

My gigas arrived now all up on small nodules what so then vegtiert.
gigas and hewittii work for me Not at all, habs, abandoned for Decus-silvae grows wonderfully and the tubers are also getting fatter.