This little beauty, now about 2 inches tall, is Mango ginger (Curcuma amada). I was sent two small rhizomes in the spring as part of a Garden Organic experiment to find out how easy it is to grow in this country. The instructions were to put them somewhere humid until they sprouted. They didn’t. That was April.
Eventually I decided that they might do better if I potted them up, so I did. They didn’t sprout. And some time after that I lost patience with them and put the pot outside in the Grow Dome, and forgot about it.
In the middle of September I found the pot again, and emptied it out. One of the rhizomes had disappeared completely, but the larger of the two showed tiny fresh white nodules – signs that it was thinking about sprouting. I potted it up and brought it indoors. It did very little.
I uncovered the rhizome so that it got more light, and very slowly a tiny shoot began to appear. The glaciers are moving faster these days. By the 27th October there was a tiny shoot turning green:
And this morning I have two inches of beautiful green, curled leaf. I am impressed :)
Rhizowen wrote:
...on Wed, Nov 16 '11 (184 days ago)