Deppea splendens Propagation Experiment
I just noticed on Ebay that two different auctions, by different people, got close to $180 for small rooted cuttings of Deppea splendens. It's a beautiful plant, and generally hard to find, but still that surprised me. I've seen it high, before of course--it just continues to amaze me.
I had seen a 5 gallon plant at a nursery a couple months ago for $40. I already grow the plant--I got a one gallon plant at Strybing Arboretum a year ago for $12 and it bloomed last summer.
My plant is still fairly small, but I've propagated it already--it's fairly easy. So I decided to buy the 5 gallon plant with the hopes that I can propagate a ton of plants as well as preserve much of the flowering.
In case anyone is wondering, if I do get a good number of plants to root I may end up selling some. If so, I'll follow up here after I sell the plants.
Here's the plant as I bought it from Sloat Garden Center in San Francisco. It looks a bit ragged--Deppeas generally do--but it seems healthy. Perhaps it has gotten a little too much sun. The plant came from the wholesaler San Marcos Growers (link at bottom of the post). I believe Sloat is out of this plant, but no doubt at the right time of the year they, or other nurseries that carry San Marcos plants, can special order it.
The inflorescences come off of the reasonably mature growths--there can be many--so I wanted to leave a reasonable number. The plant was a bit lopsided, so I decided to go for the main stem. I'm going to let what's left leaf out and decide how much more (if any) to take of that stem. I also took some of the new growth at the bottom.
And here are the cuttings I generated. I count 21 "real" cuttings, as well as 6 tiny pieces which I doubt will root, but which I'll try anyway:
I dipped them in IBA (0.8% but it's old, and I use a tiny bit on the tip) and put them in plastic cups in moist perlite, with another cup on top to maintain humidity. I put the largest 5 in their own cups, the rest mostly in groups of 3. I ended up with cuttings in 11 plastic cups. These went under a compact fluorescent light inside.
I'll try to follow up in about 3 weeks, when hopefully some (or most) of the cuttings have rooted.
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