Flower of DEATH! Everything you need to grow them.

[@robinmarks5638]

I just got one of these bulbs and this is the best video I've seen on how to take care of them! Thank you!!

[@loricatful]

Randy I really appreciate your time and effort to educate us in such a clear and thorough way. Awesome 👍👍

[@ranaka007]

Yesterday I casually walked into a field of these in a forest of tropical Sri Lanka. Took myself one big bulb and two tiny ones. Excited!

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Wow! I'm jealous

[@dianed3491]

Thanks, this was the BEST info I have found so far ! I have been doing just as you said. I live in zone 6 Pa. I bought a few about 3 years ago, I did get some babies but they are all still so small. My biggest 1 is the size of a quarter. I just checked mine and they do have the white cone starting to sprout. It's still cold here, I guess I can plant soon and put in window for now. I did not know to use tomato fertilizer, I will give that a try. Thanks much, Diane

[@EvolvedEnergetics]

Finally, a video that explains a lot of questions I've had about my voodoo lilies! Thank you very much for putting this together!

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

You're welcome! Thank you for watching.

[@Apollo_Blaze]

What a great video...so great that it was so long...I learned tons from this...these plants are like nothing I have ever seen, and looks so easy to grow. Thanks very much for this...I hope you make other long videos like this one. It was really fun to watch. We appreciate you too, Randy!

[@terriekaufman8575]

this video and your information were so great, better than I have gotten anywhere so thank you! I appreciate your information and now we will see if I can keep this baby alive and through the winter.

[@Inorani]

I loved every minute of this. What an amazing plant!

[@WZamp]

Thank you for making these videos! All the way from Sydney Australia :)

[@cancer32le]

I love your video. Supper informative. Im so excited to have this plant. I also live in Florida. I will eventually try to get an amorphophallus T.😊

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Start with A. paeoniifolius. They're the easiest to grow here.

[@BettyMiller-vh3dk]

I love this flower an your videos ...I took two blubs an tossed in my goldfish tanks as an experiment .They have started to stem up ..I have another blub that is in the same pot that I left in my sunroom for winter never got below 40⁰ that will be flowering for the second year in a row ...I live at the bottom of Michigan on Lake Erie ...So it gets cold

[@fishby8070]

glad that you explained how the tuber changes every year. It's the same with tulip bulbs.

[@sazji]

I grew A. konjac in Turkey. The neighbors were just bewildered as to why anyone would grow something like that. :-) Here in Seattle it will survive the winter, but without a greenhouse, they always go into decline because we just don’t get enough summer heat. :-(

[@alexoliver6294]

Best video ever. Thanks from the United Kingdom.

[@JaesadaSrisuk]

Great video! I live in Arizona and I find Arums SO fascinating. Your video makes me really tempted to buy a couple corms!

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Hey thanks! You'll need to create a shady, high humidity (relatively speaking), micro-climate for them, but it's do-able. A lot of my family lives in the Tucson area. My mom grows Brugmansias and other tropicals, (never Amorphophallus though, for no specific reason) but it's not going to be as easy as growing them here in Florida. A shady area with lots of other foliage plants and/or a water feature would be a good place. I can grow them in nearly full sun here (I don't usually), but where you are, you wouldn't want direct sun to hit them except in the early morning. The nice thing about Amorphoophallus is that you wouldn't have to worry about keeping them happy in Winter. Just put the tubers in a paper bag and store them somewhere dry and cool. This coming Winter I'll have paeoniifolius, 3 cultivars of konjac, impressus, maxwelli, muelleri, henryi, and possibly a limited number of bulbifer.

[@user-hu7ym1ex1o]

@@Sheikyerbouti8 Hi Randy. I too live in a climate with really hot summers. I was thinking about using a misting system strung up around my plants, and only using it during the hottest part of the day. Can you offer any other pointers on how to create a nice little microclimate in the middle of a hot desert climate ? Thank you Randy.

[@user-hu7ym1ex1o]

@@Sheikyerbouti8 Hey Randy great video thank you. I live in Calif. and was wondering if you had any paeoniifolius corms for sale or trade? Thank you.

[@StateofDecayScience]

Is there a guaranteed way to grow a flower? I have grown hundreds in my fam but no flowers yet. I am not an expert in Yam anyway!

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Feed them properly, also for A. paeoniifolius, don't let the larger tuber get crowded out by the many smaller ones that grow around it. I've never had any species I've grown, fail to bloom, eventually, but it can take time. Good luck!

[@williamkallenbach7461]

Great and interesting plant! I have only grown Konjac, which, unfortunately, I no longer have. Growth habit and structure very much the same but flower on yours looks larger and more interesting.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Konjac is one of my faves. I've got three different cultivars of A. konjac. I have a total of nine different species of Amorphophallus, but I'm backing down from selling them , because the cost of growing them is too high to make them profitable to sell.

[@monikariley730]

Thank you very much for your answer. Unfortunately, I have only one plant and so I won't get a flower.

[@josepagan1862]

WOW ! I bought mine back in 1985 at the International mall in Miami and I still have it .. I did not know what it was, I just like the plant but when it flowers get ready for the smell of poop..but it a beautiful plant over all..

[@melissabrown5318]

I have also had mine for 3 years this is the first year both of mine have flowerd

[@nidalshehahadeh7485]

I got the seeds off the internet in which out of 5 seeds only 2 germinated , about 2 inch high in the pot when I get busy with different issues and neglected them , they dried up and died in which I said to myself that's the end of it , the planting pots left in the same place for about a year , to my surprise next year they just came up , I transplanted them into a hydroponic settings in which they loved it , one became 8 to 10 inches another grow up to be 5 inches , I left one on top of the fridge debating if I should eat it or not , yes they are edible at least that's what they do in India , last week I looked at it and before I know it there's this cone coming out of it in which I replanted it , I planted the second small one in the soil all year long and it survived , this year I planted it Hydroponic and it seems to be happy .

[@mudithmanu]

Learned a lot. Thanks 👍🏽

[@paulapoisso697]

I have a huge 30 inch bloom in my kitchen very happy right now and gonna bloom open just any minute!! Where can I sell it? And will it bloom again this year? Would you be interested??

[@paulapoisso697]

I’m in Springfield Missouri

[@BettyMiller-vh3dk]

How much please

[@pandaqueen11]

Thanks for the info! I found a bunch of these flowers/trees in our yard. I'm also in Florida. :) Miami to be specific. Haha.

[@davekey3606]

Hi I have been growing this plant indoors for 3 years now in Manchester UK . The size of the stem and leaves is increasing annually. Having seen the video of the flowering is there any way to encourage the bloom to occur?

[@ScaryFear]

Hi Randy. Great tips. It's time for me to bag up my amorphs now too. Gosh I'm going to have a lot. I'm so bad with labels though I have no idea what's what til next spring when they start to come up again. I enjoyed the video. I'd love to get a giant passion flower from you again sometime. I'll probably email you later on since I see you are out of passiflora at the moment.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Hey you! long time. I keep them clustered all together by species, and then put them together into paper bags that are labeled. Otherwise I wouldn't know what I had to sell to people. As long as you don't mix them in the first place, it's not too hard to keep them straight. Didn't you have an A. titanum and an A. gigas? If so, how are those doing for you? Good to hear from you!

[@PRORAKYATChannelTV]

in Indonesia there is also a kind of that is also imported into Japan,china

[@myblackheart]

Great video. u are the man. this is exactly what iv been looking for.

[@monikariley730]

Thank you very much for all the information. How do I know If I get a Leaf or a Flower? Is there a female and male plant?

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Flowers are a shorter, fatter cone when they emerge. Male and female flowers are found on the same inflorescence, but open on different days, so they can't pollinate themselves. Only a second flower opening, staggered by one day, can pollinate it.

[@BBQNBLUES]

Only Wish you had enabled Closed Captioning for us Hearing Impaired.

[@monikariley730]

Great, informative video, thank you.

[@happinessinleaf]

Thanks for the info 👍. Happiness in leaf 🍃 vlog

[@billymarecle9009]

Excellent video, Thanks!

[@gooftroop6841]

Will these grow well in nor cal ??

[@lindaedmunds4142]

The shorter plant looks like it going to say, "Feed me Seymour!"

[@K15_08]

After the flowers bloom, will they grow a new leaf in the main bulb or on the smaller new bulbs at the side?

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Good question, but the answer varies from one species to another. For this species (A. paeoniifolius), I always get a leaf after the flower dies. It just comes up later than the ones that didn't bloom. Other species, like A. muelleri, do not grow a leaf in the same year that they bloom. For all species that I have gotten to produce fruit/seed, they do not grow a leaf in the same season that they grow flowers/fruit, but grow a leaf in the following season, which is always much reduced in size compared to the leaf from the year before they bloomed. This is due to the fact that they used up so much energy producing seeds.

[@conniejones8588]

Great video.

[@aneldabutler6539]

Your info was very detailed, thanks so much. I would like to order some of your tubers. What is the name of. Your website.

[@niharicasb]

Hey Randy, I have a bulb with a fruit attached to it. It's winter in India and I was thinking of planting it. What should I do with the fruit ? Do I need to to cut it off before putting it into the soil?

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

When I have tubers with fruits on them, I put the tuber in soil but it won't need water until it begins growing a new leaf, which doesn't happen until the seed head finishes developing, and falls off. I put the tuber in soil to keep it from dessicating too much while it is growing fruits and seeds. I've never cut them off before.

[@niharicasb]

@@Sheikyerbouti8 thanks Randy !

[@ChristSimd]

Great vid ! You didn't say anything about their comestibility. You do know they are also great eating right !

[@msmartinigirl1]

I have a few Voodoo Lillies and live in a north where it gets very cold way below freezing so I bring them in every year. Some springs or early summers they bloom some times they don't. This year they didn't bloom and they died down in the summer, which usually they stay nice a green until fall when I bring them in. Anyway a couple of them which I removed from the the potting soil look like they are going to grow again they have a pink tip coming out the center. My question is should I repot them and see if they bloom indoors now this late in the season( and yes I know it will stink if they do, I had some that popped up very early in the spring once when it was too cold to put them outdoors) or should I just put them in a them in a dark cool dry place like I usually do? I hope you are able to answer my questions. Thank you.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

I'd lkeep them dormant. I've had a few break dormancy at the wrong time and those didn't make it.

[@delmer2897]

thanks for sharingg this

[@Tampo-tiger]

Damn it! Randy seeing your Amorphophallus (is there an abbreviation for that!?) has whetted my appetite to start growing them. I've been growing what I think may be Sauromatum Venosum which I leave all year round in pots with canna outside on the patio, and they flourish every year, but I really want to start getting serious about these plants as the beauty and mystique of them is beyond compare. I have a tiny A.Titanum (a real one I think, not the Chinese ones that cost $2 on ebay!) about 3" tall at present, which I bought from a specialist grower for about $20, and though it may be a bit ambitious, nothing ventured nothing gained. Would love to know if you will post overseas, perhaps to here in England. I very much need a big fat Paeonifolius corm and also a Konjac. Thank you.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Unfortunately no, I don't ship internationally. International shipping is ridiculously expensive here, and the packages get confiscated by customs, or lost, too easily. I figured out really quickly that I wasn't going to be doing that. .Good luck finding your plants though. When using binomial nomenclature, you can abbreviate the genus to the first initial and a period as long as your reader knows that you are talking about Amorphophallus. A. konjac, A. bulbifer etc. A. titanum is a bit too ambitious for me. The really cool giant Javan/Sumatran species rot a bit too easily and they break dormancy whenever they want. So they could grow a 20 foot tall leaf in the middle of Winter, and without a giant greenhouse, that won't work. I stick to the easier ones, but I've got 7 different species now with three different cultivars of A. konjac for a total of 9 different types. They're starting to compete for space with all of my gingers. If you know anyone in the US, I could sent the tubers to, then they could send them to you across the pond. That would work with dormant tubers.

[@Tampo-tiger]

Sincere apologies Randy, I've only just seen your kind reply! I visit family in the USA most years and will hopefully be there in a month or two. They are up in NY and have often received items for me which I've then taken home to the UK. I'll place my order with you a few weeks before arriving and hope that you have the tubers/plants in stock. At the moment I'm sure you're watching the weather forecast (www.windy.com looks helpful) closely, and I'm sure all of us hope that you stay safe, and that Irma keeps well south of you. My A. Titanum is now around 14" tall and has opened an umbrella type leaf which looks incredibly shiny and healthy. I'm feeding it well with Miracle-Gro and Westland slow release stuff, high in potash I think. I have also given it some mycorrhizal granules around its roots, which I can see through the clear plastic pot. I'll probably end up taking it to a local undercover tropical gardens nearby as it would seem cruel to subject it to conditions inferior to its needs. These Amorphophallus seem to me to be more somewhere between plants and animals than just plants! Keep safe mate, and thank you so much for all the effort you go to to bring us these very helpful videos.

[@kenho2720]

I'm gonna get a titan arum in the mail tomorrow so excited :) 2 lbs and 3 oz of love lol

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

I'm jealous.

[@kenho2720]

Randy's Tropical Plants haha I'm jealous of the person who out bid me on other titan arum 4lbs and 12oz -_- lol

[@Myrghomes]

What time of year should I expect my tuber or my voodoo Lily to start dying right now it’s the beginning of October and my plans is starting to turn brown on the edges of the leaves and it’s starting to get more brown am I just not putting it in enough shade or is it time for it to start dying?

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

It's going dormant. Mine are doing the same thing.

[@melissabrown5318]

Also what happens after it flowers? Sorry tons of questions

[@alexchu215]

How old is the big tuber?

[@melissabrown5318]

I live in Florida when is the best time to dig them up and replant

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Melissa Brown anytime after they are dormant.

[@palmdaddy]

neat!

[@Zanewv]

I've tried these several times, they usually dry up over winter and die.

[@tylerrumrill7134]

What type of soil should be used to grow amorphophallus paeonfolius

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Any good, well draining, potting soil will work.

[@tylerrumrill7134]

Thanks

[@jaydengaming4005]

In my country Philippines

[@Tukangtamanbekasi]

I try to grow these thing in a pot but i got it too wet so the corm is rot and the plant is dead

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

I feel your pain. I lose a lot of them to rot, as well.

[@Tukangtamanbekasi]

@@Sheikyerbouti8 glad nowadays is the blooming season of Amorphophallus, I got some Amorphophallus variabilis blooming on my backyard, idk why they're almost not smell even tho they just bloomed Smell just like rotting plant thing, they were smell just like a little bitle skittle bit, I glad to see these plant growing like crazy fast!

[@2beauti4ify]

I would love to buy some of your plants but is there another way to pay besides PayPal? Please let me know, thank you

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Hello Lydia I don't have any other payment methods set up, but I'll try to work with you. Send me an email ([e-mail]), and we'll work something out. Cheers!

[@sherrigolden11]

@@Sheikyerbouti8 I have a con jack and I just dug up it is a amorphophallus Konica Leo song hybrid it weighed 4 pounds when I planted it and now is 8.5 lbs when I took it out of the ground. It looks like it is starting to grow when I took it out of the ground and this is November I am here in Florida in Central FloridaI need to know what to do with it since we won’t be putting it back into the ground until March or April. I need help

[@victoriarolandflora1014]

how much do you charge for a seed?

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

I sell tubers for 20. I only ship in winter while they are dormant

[@victoriarolandflora1014]

@@Sheikyerbouti8 can i buy? what is the mode of payment and is it ok to ship overseas?

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

@@victoriarolandflora1014 I only sell them in Winter while they are dormant, and I do not ship internationally, unfortunately.

[@courtneyjohn5621]

I’m here cuz of Rosie

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Courtney John hi. Could you elaborate? Who is Rosie?

[@izabelalice3616]

Moro no Brasil. Queria muito uma planta dessa chifre de veado

[@rudransh_yaduvanshi]

I will found this flower at my location in India , it also smelling like rotting flesh and looking same as your flower

[@stoggsherfnik4569]

Hello Rudransh. I understand the corm/bulb (A. paeoniifolius) is edible and highly nutritious but only consumed in the countries where they thrive naturally. Do these appear and if so, sold in marketplaces in the region where you live?

[@vimalprince4467]

@@stoggsherfnik4569yeah you can find these in any vegetable market. They are super tasty. You can get one for less than a dollar.

[@robertlundstrom8061]

Excellent content, but enough with the "flower of death" titles.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

We gotta bring these to the attention of the noobs somehow. Sometimes you have to slap people in the face with something before they will pay any attention to it, and realize how cool it is. If I just named the video the scientific name of the plant, then only plant nerds woud ever see it. I love plant nerds, heck I'm a plant nerd, but I'm trying to reach everyone here.

[@Zkillaliveslife]

just ordered one can't wait for it to get here i have been looking every Where for amorphophallus species and your price is amazing. i will make sure to do an unboxing video.

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Awesome! Just for that I'll throw in a free Amorphophallus muelleri too.

[@Zkillaliveslife]

wow serious! thank you so much!

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

Your tubers are in the mail. I checked your local temps and it looks pretty cold, so be sure to watch for the package so it doesn't freeze. Be careful with that A. muelleri while it is growing. They only grow one leaf a year, and if it gets broken or severely damaged while it is growing, it can spell disaster for the plant. That species grows bulbils from the leaf axis so you can propagate it that way, and they are apomictic too, so they produce seeds when they bloom without needing to be pollinated. I hope you love your plant. Thank you so much!

[@Zkillaliveslife]

thank you so much. i'm so excited cant wait to get them!