Anyone out there ever grown these aroids? found some for sale in a
local ethnic supermarket (along with some others that looked similar)
and thought I'd give it a go.
When is the best time to plant (they'll be pot grown).
I'm in the South UK and they will be grown in an East facing
conservatory.
Thanks.
Ford.

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from Ford Prefect contains these words:

Anyone out there ever grown these aroids? found some for sale in a
local ethnic supermarket (along with some others that looked similar)
and thought I'd give it a go.

No, and the name covers a range of tubers from different plants.

When is the best time to plant (they'll be pot grown).
I'm in the South UK and they will be grown in an East facing
conservatory.

I would expect them to require more light and heat than an east-facing
conservatory could provide. But give them a try. I'd plant them in pots
in a polythene tent with a small heater under it - say a 60 watt bulb.

Better, you could start them in an old refrigerator with a suitable bulb
in it - you'd have to find the wattage by trial and error. (I made an
incubator which took 1,000 hens' eggs from an old refrigerator. It had
two 60 watt bulbs, though it only required one - the other was a
failsafe. It did have a thermostat though.)

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On 21/1/06 18:44, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

Ford Prefect wrote:

Anyone out there ever grown these aroids?

I've got a clump growing in the garden!

I found some for sale in a
local ethnic supermarket (along with some others that looked similar)
and thought I'd give it a go.

Buy plenty, the growing plants cost a lot of money if you get them
from an exotics nursery. I just wish shops were more 'ethnic' here in
the South West A couple of quid for a kilo of tubers is far better
than 5 or 6 for a single plant!

When is the best time to plant (they'll be pot grown).
I'm in the South UK and they will be grown in an East facing
conservatory.

'Eddoe' when properly applied is Colocasia antiquorum, a very
attractive foliage plant with impressive shield like,
softly-crystaline textured, deep green leaves to 30cms. long held on
80cms high, stalks that are invariably purple flushed. snip

This is the plant the tubers of which make the stuff called 'poi' in
Hawaii?? When we were there, we tried it - close relation of wallpaper
paste. But it's a truly handsome plant, I agree - the leaves are something
quite exceptional.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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On 22/1/06 2:06, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

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As an ornamental, it has much to recommend it and there are some
stunning varieties. There's even a giant form with massive leaves on
head-high stalks. Once you have an established plant, it increases
readily into a sizeable clump and as hinted before, its cold tolerance
when dormant makes it an excellent subject for the cool/cold
greenhouse in regions too cold to support it outside. Maybe I'm
imagining it, but I thought I saw one of the purple leaved forms
(possibly 'Black Magic') at the nursery. t would certainly look good
planted in the border of the small double.

Clever you! There's one in the middle bed, not too far from the Impatiens
tinctoria. ;-) I love it.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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This is the plant the tubers of which make the stuff called 'poi' in
Hawaii?? When we were there, we tried it - close relation of wallpaper
paste. But it's a truly handsome plant, I agree - the leaves are something
quite exceptional.


The ones which squeal when you poke them make a rather good pork poi.

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On 22/1/06 13:01, in article , "Rusty
Hinge" wrote:

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from Sacha contains these words:

This is the plant the tubers of which make the stuff called 'poi' in
Hawaii?? When we were there, we tried it - close relation of wallpaper
paste. But it's a truly handsome plant, I agree - the leaves are something
quite exceptional.


The ones which squeal when you poke them make a rather good pork poi.

Groooooaaaaannnn!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the flowers to email me)

Thankyou all for the replies, there were a number of diffrent sized
tubers all looking roughly the same (hairy yams) I'll give them a go
towards the end of next month, as to what I can grow in my
conservatory you'd be supprised, as Dave said looking at the price of
nursery plants it's got to be worth a try.
I'll probably start them off alongside my baby Amorphallus titanum
plants and see what happens.
Thanks again.
Ford.

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:13:57 -0000, Rusty Hinge 2
wrote:

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from Ford Prefect contains these words:

Anyone out there ever grown these aroids? found some for sale in a
local ethnic supermarket (along with some others that looked similar)
and thought I'd give it a go.

No, and the name covers a range of tubers from different plants.

When is the best time to plant (they'll be pot grown).
I'm in the South UK and they will be grown in an East facing
conservatory.

I would expect them to require more light and heat than an east-facing
conservatory could provide. But give them a try. I'd plant them in pots
in a polythene tent with a small heater under it - say a 60 watt bulb.

Better, you could start them in an old refrigerator with a suitable bulb
in it - you'd have to find the wattage by trial and error. (I made an
incubator which took 1,000 hens' eggs from an old refrigerator. It had
two 60 watt bulbs, though it only required one - the other was a
failsafe. It did have a thermostat though.)