i know it has pretty leaves, is it good for any other thing??

Try again. Wish I could delete the post. This post was edited by Dzitmoidonc on Sat, May 25, 13 at 10:05

Nice photo! They are a lot further along than the ones in my creek. Mine are mostly in the running water, we are at 1000', no sign of blooms yet. Spring is definitely coming even with this mornings dusting of white stuff. jwww

They all died and I pretty much have given up on trying to grow more. I was actually thinking about this problem a couple of weeks ago though, and I think part of the issue might be the difference in redox conditions in my setup versus their natural habitat. For anyone without much of a chemistry background, my line of thought is that in their natural habitat (permanently saturated wetland), soil conditions are highly reducing--hence why that sort of habitat smells like rotten eggs (sulfate reduction to hydrogen sulfide gas). There would have been plenty of oxygen in my setup, even though parts of it were saturated most of the time, and certain oxidized ions (eg, iron) are significantly less soluble than their reduced counterparts. It's possible that differences in ion dissolution or precipitation could have led to nutrient deficiencies for my skunk cabbages. It's also possible that these differences could have changed pH enough to lead to nutrient deficiencies.