O goodness! About anything I have doubles of! I'm not 100% sure what I have that would interest you, I'm flush with elephant ears, I have about 15 tradable types, lots of other tropicals, some hosta, daylily, hardy asiatic oriental trumpet orenpent martignon ... Lots of lilys If you don't mind email me and can work things out, there's a few things on your list interesting me too I realize the bulb you mentioned is not cheap, ill make a strong offer, I just hope I can tempt you with the plant I have, most are not much like the ones you have, but the elephant ears sure do good for me in zone 6 Thanks alot for the response!

I wanted to let everyone know about an exciting opportunity to meet with other plant enthusiasts, view some wonderful plant collections, research facilities, tour beautiful gardens, trade plants and cuttings with other growers and hear some talks about research and growing of tropical plants. Believe it or not - all of this will occur in one day in St. Louis, Missouri! And that day is April 24th. Anyone interested in plants is invited to attend. Bring your friends and family. The only cost is the admission charged by the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The agenda is included below. This meeting will be hosted by Dr. Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Please RSVP to me (zach at zachandchristie.com - replace "at" with the usual symbol) so that we know how many chairs to set up and how many refreshments to have. And let me know if you have any questions. You can also see the official meeting announcement at our website: http://aroid.org/midamerica. 2nd MidAmerica Chapter International Aroid Society Meeting Missouri Botanical Garden April 24, 2010 All plant enthusiasts are encouraged to attend - you don't have to be a member of the IAS! The only cost is admission to the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Feel free to come for the first half, second half, or the full day of activities! Opening Gathering: 8:30-9:30 AM. Coffee Opening: 9:30 AM A review of Systematic work with Araceae in the New World . Thomas B. Croat, Missouri Botanical Garden 10:15 AM Coffee break 10:45 AM A preview of the Philodendron from some arid areas of Brazil and a visit to the Burle Marx Collection in Brazil , Joep Moonen, Emerald Jungle Village , French Guiana . 11:15 AM Missouri Botanical Gardens Grounds Tour. This tour will concentrate on some of the grounds near the Ridgway Center since at least some of us will return there for lunch 12:15 PM Lunch break Opening of Afternoon session: 1:00 PM An introduction to aroid genera, Thomas B. Croat, Missouri Botanical Garden 1:45 PM Cultivating tropical plants efficiently in a temperate environment, Steve Lucas, Siloam Springs , Arkansas . 2:15 PM Cultivating Aroids outdoors in a temperate area. Steve Marak, Springdale , Arkansas 2:30 PM Coffee break and plant swap and give away 3:00 PM Tour of Missouri Botanical Garden Aroid Collection 3:45 PM Tour of Research complex at Lehmann Building herbarium. This will include seeing the world's largest collection of herbarium specimens, demonstrations on the use of Lucid, a session at the CATE Araceae site at Kew and an explanation of Croat's research efforts with revisionary and floristic studies. 4:30 PM Refreshments 5:00 PM Adjournment for dinner at a local restaurant (for those who wish to attend) Here is a link that might be useful: IAS MidAmerica chapter

I'll give the sm pot question a try: Generally, a smaller pot allows the roots to more uniformly fill the pot and thus suck the water out of all parts of the pot at about the same rate. So you won't have parts of the soil that are dry and other parts that are still wet...just ripe for mold/rot. A poster on here named Russ has mentioned this before, and he has maybe dozens(?) of Aroids. Here on the central east coast we've had an all time record rainfall total for the year. That has added to indoor humidity as well. As for the rot this year as opposed to other yrs: Depending on where you live, higher humidity than ever before could have helped the rot to prosper. I had an Elephant Ear get 2 deep rot areas on it's trunk/corm when storing it indoors for the winter. I scraped the rot out with a metal teaspoon and its handle tip. I felt terrible doing it because I didn't know what the outcome would be but I didn't want to do nothing. Only the softer areas were easy to scrape out so I only scraped those. Then I rinsed it with water, placed it next to a fan, and a couple days later when completely dry I sprayed copper fungicide on it. In my case I then stored it for a few months in a sm bag of peat moss - but in your case it would be re-potted. That was 12 mos ago, It did great over the summer when planted and produced a couple pups.

If you're into meconostigma aroids (the large self-headers like Philodendron bipinnatifidum and P. x evansii), then this site if for you: http://blueboard.com/pahatan/ * It helps if you can read Malay, but there are tons of pics in it. There is an associated forum: http://blueboard.com/aroids/ Here is a link that might be useful: Meconostigma Aroids