Found some voodoo activity in winter storage

[DeepWater]

IT HAPPENED! Sunday morning the floral scent starting changing. It's bad, saturated the air with stench. I described it as a dead fish out in the summer sunshine. Others say it's like a dead mouse. By afternoon we had headaches and couldn't take it anymore. I made a mini "Dexter kill room" in the garage, with a heater, and moved the plant out there. When the stink goes away (they say it will), then it can come back inside.

The flower did open though, and the stalk continues to grow an inch and a half each day - 65" tall now. Still need to figure out how to pollinate it - maybe a Q-tip full rubdown? The future seeds are visible in these zoomed pics.

 

[Nepen]

wow, this is amazing!
Where are the pollen? the big thing in the middle?

 

[DeepWater]

I'm not yet sure. There is no visible pollen dust. In that last picture there are 2 separate looking sections in the bottom of the flower. Maybe one of those has pollen.

 

[Nepen]

Found this... different variaty but might have similar structure http://my.chicagobotanic.org/tag/pollination/

 

[addy1]

Wow that thing grows like a bad weed! Glad you had a place to put it while it stinks!

 

[DeepWater]

Update!

The 2nd flower went into stink mode 5 days ago and was moved to the garage It is the smallest of the 3 and was up to 45" when we moved it.

The 3rd flower got moved today, the scent was too overwhelming. It's not quite the full-on dead rodent smell yet, but a very powerful stinky floral smell. It's 64" tall and is the same height as the 1st flower.

The 1st flower is winding down. I don't think it has any scent remaining, but as I don't know where it is with the fertilization process, it gets to stay with its 2 buddies. The top of the flower is losing strength, starting to go limp a bit. (fulfilling the lifecycle of the phallus)

All 3 are in the garage in a plastic wrapped heated chamber.

Here's the 3rd flower before moving it:

Here's their enclosure in the garage:

 

[Meyer Jordan]

Always wanted to grow the 'Titanum' but never did.