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I had suspected there was a new flower growing over the last few days as I kept an eye on a small specimen. Today it finally grew to where I can definitely confirm it is a flower. I don’t know what this particular plant is; it may be one of a few unidentified/unknown species that I have. Thankfully because it is a flower, I can take a picture and ask some experts to see if they can identify it, and finally add a label to this plant if I can.

I’ll be keeping tabs on this as I think it’ll bloom within the next week or so. This is the smallest flower I’ve had so far, so it’ll be interesting to see what it looks like!

Tags: amorphophallus, unidentified species
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A lot of the plants I have that go dormant are usually put into my storage box unless they’re too large. It’s nothing fancy as it’s just a drawer I took from one of my closet shelves. I mix a soil-less with extra perlite, add some water so it’s just a tad moist and cool to the touch, and then bury the dormant tubers in it until they wake up. I often go and check them out (probably four time a week or so) to check that there’s no rot, see if any growth has started, aerate the mix, and add some more water if needed. One particular week I had been busy so I had not been able to check out the dormant plants as often as I’d have liked, and to my surprise there were several saying hello.

Some that were shipped in from other parts of the world as well as the ones I had acquired here were beginning to wake up and stretch out their roots for the season. Before I busied myself for the afternoon potting everyone, I made sure to snag some photos so I could compare in the fall how their growth was (I should’ve weighed them too!). Hopefully they get just as big or bigger by the time they go back to sleep.

Tags: amorphophallus, decus-silvae, eichleri, koratensis, maxwellii, muelleri, taurostigma, titanum, unidentified species
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I just got back from my trip to the Aroid Show & Sale at Fairchild Gardens. It was the first time I had been there, and I have to say although I was expecting a bit more than that (probably half of what was at the Mango Festival), it was still a nice time. I even got to speak to a few experts who helped reassure that how I was growing my collection was correct.

As usual I bought a few species of plants that I was looking for and a few I wasn’t (two of which are unidentified species). My mother also happen to get some plants that I thought were pretty interesting. The pictures of the event are below, with the last ones being the ones I obtained for my collection. View the images to get more information of the items pictured.

Tags: amorphophallus, atroviridis, paeoniifolius, pygmaeus, unidentified species
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