For sure. I was just expecting it to force one of the tiny dormant buds all over the corm, but no. And those tiny dorman buds can expand to a substantial sized leaf! Out here, when fire goes through a redwood forest, sometimes all the branches are burned off...the next year thousands of dormant buds burst through the bark and the tree turns into a pale blue-green brush 30m tall...once a few years pass, the branchlets compete out and the tree begins to develop scaffolding branches again plus one apical stem. On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 2:34 PM Robert Lauf via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Apical dominance at work, allowing plants a practical way to have spare > parts on hand. I recently got a tuber of Amorphoplallus napalensis in the > mail, carelessly packed so the sprout broke off in transit. I planted it > and hoped, and sure enough, new growths eventually sprouted. No bloom for > this year, though. > A few years back, we had a bizarre hard freeze at the end of May, and all > the large trees looked like someone took a blowtorch to them. All the > leaves were black. But within a few days, dormant buds burst into growth > and in maybe two weeks there was no evidence that anything had happened! > Nature has had a long time to work on these problems, and the solutions are > pretty elegant. > Bob > On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 05:04:02 PM EDT, Robert Parks via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Your mileage may vary. I've noticed that Amorphophallus corms have already > formed the flower bud when they go dormant, as well as the next year's leaf > bud. For extra confusion, one of mine had a leaf failure, and when that > fell away there was already a bud starting to expand from the same growing > point...even though normally they are a one leaf a year plant. > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:01 PM Diane via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > > When you buy flower bulbs, the flower is already present, squished > > inside. I’ve never cut a bulb open to see how developed the flower is. > > > > I wonder when they begin to form? When do conditions have to be right > for > > this to happen? > > > > Have any of you bought bulbs that did not flower? > > > > This question was triggered by my bletilla corms producing only leaves > for > > nine years. > > > > Diane Whitehead > > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…