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Propogation: Has anyone tried??

Posted by homemommy (My Page) on
Tue, Jan 19, 10 at 13:58

Greetings!

Well, I just checked on my tubers, many seem to have done surprisingly well with little care, just lightly dusted off and thrown in a grocery bag and into an unheated area of the home. Actually, those ones did MUCH MUCH better then the ones I fussed over!

Some where kept in an area that got a little warm however, and now have long up to a foot long strands of leggy spagetti looking shoots. I have an idea though... I had a lot of luck last spring with taking cuttings, cutting just below the maristem (sp?) about 95% of my cuttings rooted with no issues or difficulties. Now, these that I have now are way to immature to survive cut off from the tuber, but I wonder, if I burried them, would they form roots? Has anyone tried this sort of thing before? I am going to try... but wondering if anyone else has tried this before...


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RE: Propogation: Has anyone tried??

Yes they will..I bury all my tubers 6 to 8 inches side ways or straight up and down and as they grow, I mound the dirt up several more inches up the new stems above the ground...sometimes there is a tuber with a long stem and I will lay the tuber in the hole and pile the dirt around it....later when I dig my tubers there will be roots or even tubers at the leaf nodes.....I grow seversl hundred different types, like the BB Cac. or Lac.


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RE: Propogation: Has anyone tried??

Thanks,

I remember last year I planted one of my plants deep, and when I dug it up just like you said there was a tuber on the stem. I am just wondering if you could trick an overstretched shoot that has been desperately trying to find light for a few weeks to grow roots and shoots along its meristems... I am going to try....


 
 

 

 


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