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Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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Sat, Sep 1, 12 at 13:51
| I suspect my 3 inchs Cycas pup is half rotten as when I press it with my fingers it feels like a tomato. I feel it is somewhat tough inside and feels like a sponge from outside. This pup was like a tough onion a month ago when I chopped it from the base of the Cycas trunk and dried it for a week before planting it in the sea sand and perlite.
My greediness made me to keep the Cycas pup along with tiny pot inside microwave oven at 450W for 2 minutes and after 3 days a reddish/yellowish that looks like a wool formed over the grooves of the cycas pup and even during this time the pup was tough and slightly changed its colour to healthy red. After a week later I poured water to it in 4 inch pot. The next day when I touched it I realized I made a mistake pouring water. I replaced it in dry perlite. I checked the previous sea sand and found no rotten smell in sea sand as well as pup but the pup is somewhat spongy and hard. How can I rescue my pup ? I can't find pumice here. |
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RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| let me get this straight. you microwaved a plant? |
RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| ericthehurdler, I microwaved cycas pup that no leaves or roots. I can't able to post image here. |
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| Click direct link http://i45.tinypic.com/2zdmzv4.jpg |
RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| im not an expert on cycads but im sure microwaving any living organism will cause damage. why did you microwave it? |
RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| It is a fast way to dry them if death is to slow(-; |
RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| Eric, Cycas revoluta will flush a new set of leaves only once a year at summer time. Google search to learn more. I want to experiment with this pup to know the secret inside the Cycas trunk. 3 days after the microwave test the pup was busy preparing some kind of wool in its grooves and a week later a touch of water stopped it to create more wool. The pup confused whether it's a summer or rainy season. Now it's thinking whether to live or die. Generally it will take 6 or more months for a pup to flush a new leaves. I did this to stimulate root growth as I don't want to wait for so long. My experiment will fail if it rots. |
RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| I know that much about cycads lol It's going to die most likely. Microwaving a plant is no replacement for summer. By puting your pup in the microwave for 2 minutes you basically cooked it into a giant popcorn kernel lol Patience is always the best solution. |
RE: Is my Cycas revoluta pup rotten ?
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| Basically creates the same effect as deep freezing it but a lot faster,total eruption of all cell walls. |
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