Arisaema sikokianum

Anita Roselle anitaroselle@gmail.com
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 07:14:56 PDT
Rimmer,

 I am in the North Carolina mountains, zone 6a - 7b depending what
elevation you are, I am in a cold pocket, about 2 weeks behind other local
gardens.

I planted the them only with the small amount of potting soil that was in
the 2-3" pot they were in. Have never bare rooted any when I planted them.
Plant that was given to me was dug up where some seed had been planted by a
mouse or ants, so
was in native soil at a friend house that does not have this problem.

As far as rust they do not look like they have rust but I don't know what
rust looks like on them, I have never seen it on jack's. I am a retired
perennial propagator so have grown a lot of plants in various garden and
have not had this kind of problem.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Rimmer deVries <rdevries@comcast.net>
wrote:

> a few questions:
> - are you planting the sikokes out in the garden with a pocket of the peat
> based potting soil? or “bulb" freely in native soil?
> - do the local native Jack’s have any rust?
> - where is your generalized locality
>
> Rimmer
> SE MI zone 5/6
>
> > On Mar 24, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Anita Roselle <anitaroselle@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I would like some input on a problem that I have with Arisaema
> sikokianum.
> > I can grow it from seed with no problem, then transplant it to small pots
> > with Pro Mix potting soil, it grows beautifully. Then when I plant it in
> my
> > garden it shrivels up and dies, even a full grown plant given to me grew
> > one season and then died.
> >
> > I have had my soil tested and it was extremely acid, would this have
> caused
> > the quick demise of my plants? I have not had this extreme a reaction to
> my
> > soil by other plants but many plants do not do as well as I would like.
> >
> > I have applied the right amount of lime but am hesitant to plant again.
> > I have about 40 small pots of A. sikokianum that I don't want to kill.
> > When lime is applied how often does it have to be done again?
> >
> > There are a few native Jack's in the woods but not as many as I would
> like,
> > maybe they are affected by the acid as well. Any suggestions on this
> > situation would be very welcome, I am a good grower and this really
> > frustrates me. If it is not the acid what could it be, there has never
> been
> > any pollutants on my property, it is a north slope partly wooded hillside
> > that has never been anything else.
>
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