Hi, thoroughly enjoyed reading your story, chuckled a few times, although parts of it were quite sad. Glad things have settled and you are feeling better about things. Absolutely hope you will help enliven this forum with as many threads and posts as you can create. A lot of people have several (or mostly) Aroids but don't even realize it. I'm guilty of that until recently.

It's not easy to get oneself to the proper climate of their choosing. I made a great step in the right direction by moving 850 miles south a few years ago. One more move like that should put me in the tropical location where I feel like I belong. Good luck to both of us!

To show some pics, you can put one pic at a time by using the "browse" button here on the forum for any pics on your computer. If you'd like to upload masses of pics, it might be easier to obtain a free photo-hosting account on one of the popular sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Imageshack, etc... Then you can use the provided code by pasting it into your message, which allows the pics to show up in your post. Or you can just send the plants to me and I'd be happy to take some nice pics of them!

I love EE's too! The tall one, Colocasia esculenta, is hardy here. I'm told the spotted one is not but hoping it might be in a micro-climate. I don't have anywhere with the right temp to store it if I were to dig it up.

That's some story. We all have our ideas, plans, dreams, but somehow life's realities seem to get in the way. We can only try to do what we can try to do. Guess it's a matter of the journey being more significant than the destination.

I have a property a quarter the size of yours, which I bought, ie., generation 1. And still paying the mortgage (someone's got to keep those bank executives living at the levels they've become accustomed to).

My list of (realistically) desirable plants is quite extensive, and aroids feature prominently. And amongst the aroids amorphs sit quite high. The aroid forum is very slow here so most of the posts relating to them end up in the others, mainly House Plants, Tropicals, and also places like Palms and Cycads because a lot of the palm lovers are also aroid fans. So I look all over the site for whatever's interesting.

When it comes to posting photos, I use both methods. If there's only one photo, it's a direct upload onto GW. Sometimes I'll do a couple of posts with a photo in each. Other times when there's a few to be done, or I've already uploaded them onto a photo share site, I just put the codes into the message for whatever number of photos I want in there. Once you try it you'll see how simple it is.

Enjoy your reading and posting and, not to forget, your gardening.

well you are not alone in this KY climate that dosent suit me very much either. Just about everything I grow aside from a cacti or 2 is tropical and will not overwinter here. I got the green thumb from my grandma and mother but they never went to outside the box so as a younger person in the plant trade im learning as I go but I get alot of help some real experenced people. send me a list of what your really looking for and I probably have/can get most of it (mkindoll@gmail.com) most of my interest is in aroid , bananas, and the strange things (t rex , gunnera , very tropical palms ) things you just don't grow around here. look forward to getting to know you and I'll help with whatever I can.

Sorry i havent had time to respond, i been snappin pics like crazy on pokin round on here tryin to get a hang on things. Ill get back to this post soon...

I started up on flickr and have just uploaded a few pics...all EEs so far

Thanks for the responses

yeah get a link up for that like to see what you got some trades might be arranged.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88898514@N07/

Im not sure where i posted this lick last night...

im just gettin started

Hi everybody
Purp
Ill do my best to perk thing up here...but im gunna need more aroids hrm...
I feel pretty well versed on aroids now, but I was thoroughly intrigued, and collecting them well before then...they are just too much fun.

Im goin for the big move i think. I been rooted here too long and 850 miles wont cut it, I HATE the cold, it just hurts now i cant imagine when im older...ugh, but my old lady cant take the heat. Looks like west is our only option, I hope the lack of humidity doesnt hinder my aroid options D:
AL is a beautiful state, id certainly settle for there as long in was near the coast.
That little spotted EE just might make it there too, or make a nice house plant til next spring, they handle it remarkably well.

tropic
I havent found a destination yet, i dont think, certainly havent reached it, have I...now uve made me all philosophical...thanks... :P

I spose the nt on the end of your handle means northern territory. That would be a reasonable destination, really, i think anywhere in AUS would do, atleast anywhere with people... Have any more of those where your at? More people that is...With that climate I might be ok with no people anyways. Ive given up on makin it down there tho, crosscounrty is daunting, globe trekkin with kids. not on this budget...o well.
Land ownerships great tho man, keep up those payments, any hopes of being free from the banks soon?
Not to beat a dead horse but i think my realist plant list would be much easier obtained from your seat than mine, Ive seen a cyrtosperma recently, in person! my freind in QLD owns 7 types... That grass sure does look green over there...from here. :S

mike
your close! my new friend! :D Im super stoked our interests cross over and your so close. I really dont ever check my email. >1K. unread mails...ha, and honestly my plant collection is so minimal (seeming to me) that theres no need for a list. I want more plants, especially aroids, I bet we can do each other a fair bit of good on new acquisitions. Hopefully maybe meet an do some face to face plant swapping.
I might mention at this point ive conjured up some tropic shangrila in your backyard, do you have a greenhouse, or plans of building one, and do have more near a hundred or thousand plants? Sorry im nosey :P I really do appreciate your offer, hopefully soon we will both have some sweet new plants from the other :D

Thanks for responding everybody I got alot of good pics up and most labeled good enough for now at http://www.flickr.com/photos/88898514@N07 140 of em for now. several more to come. Please post any comments or questions here, it seems like a good place

Hope to hear from a few more aroiders here before this thread gets old and crusty and on page 2 :D

Here is a link that might be useful: some of my plants

I couldnt resist posting one more to tempt people into looking at the pics :D

Here is a link that might be useful: some of my plants

".... Ive seen a cyrtosperma recently, in person! my freind in QLD owns 7 types... That grass sure does look green over there...from here."

He has 7 ??????? I've only managed to get 3, and have never seen any others around. I assume he has mine (the most common) merkusii, cupidispathum and johnsonii. Ask him which others he has and, most importantly, where he got them, please!

The grass might look greener here, but boy does it conceal a lot of weeds, LOL.

those are some nice pics.. your just getting started though.. wait till you learn how to breed colocasia and make your own hybrids..talk about in deep you lay awake at night trying to figure out a new cross that will make peoples jaws drop LOL. we will def have to meet up in the spring.

Well its unlikely ill be hearing from him soom, aim says its been over 900 days since he was online...sigh. If im not mistaken the number 7 was reached by including different forms, i think he had 4 forms of johnsonii, probably the others you mentions as well, sorry im not more help :/ i wish i could point you to where he ordered them, all I know is it was from asia.

yea ive actually been trying for some time to cross, this year most of them bloomed too late to have a shot. my success have been extremely limited with hand pollination...clearly practice is needed. Im the consummate insomniac anyways i wish i had more plant things to think of while i tossed...would be nice...

try cutting a flower and storeing it in a test tube in the fridge. that way you always have pollen whenever one decided to open up.

All the Cyrtospermas come from New Guinea (except merkusii which is also found elsewhere), so maybe he had some connection there. When I was trekking in Papua New Guinea a couple of years back I found a Cytrosperma, probably kokodense, but it was too small (and not flowering) for a definite ID.