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Jan 28, 2019 4:48 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
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I seem to be in an endless circle of propagating my aroids. They are one of my favorite plant groups and I am of the belief that you can never have too many. SO I have been making more LOL.
Philodendron verracosum, in a pot ready to be trained up a support in March. I have this growing up supports in I think 6 locations in the greenhouse
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Anthurium clavigerum. I've propagated enough to have it sharing totems with other climbers, bromeliads and orchids in 6 locations. Brand new leaf on one vine

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Mature leaf on another vine.


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Philodendron ilsemanii. I may trade this container full to someone soon, or I may decide to keep it and pair it on a support with some other climbers


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Offset I took from my Anthurium reflexinervium....has a pretty little new leaf!


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Mar 2, 2019 1:48 PM CST
Name: Betsy
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@Gina1960,
I've just prune spiral ginger- will these root from stem cutting? Will any ginger plant root from stem cuttings?

I've rooted the blue ginger - dichorisandra
but they are not true ginger.
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Mar 2, 2019 1:53 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
you can root costs by the 'buried cane' method: strip off any leaves on the stem, cut the stem into pieces each with a leaf node, bury the stems halfway in a shallow tray of soil, water lightly, and leave them for a bit. New plants will start from the leaf nodes where the old leaves were. Or, throw them on an open air compost heap if its warm enough where you are and cover them lightly with the plant litter, come back in a few weeks, and there should be new plants starting. You can then dig these out and pot/replant them. That is what I do with mine.
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Mar 2, 2019 2:04 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
@piksihk,
As far as I know, the only gingers that will root from stem cuttings are the Costus and some of the Tapeinochilus. Hedychium, Globba, Kaempheria, Alpinia, Schomburghkia will not. You have to propagate those through seeds or through rhizome division. Costus will also make new plants from their old blooms, if those blooms are allowed to stay on the ground. A new plantlet will come out and root itself into the ground. Then you can cut the mother stem away, and either leave the new plant where it rooted or take it up and put it where you want it.
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Mar 4, 2019 7:41 AM CST
Name: Alice
Flat Rock, NC (Zone 7a)
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I agree with GIna but if you plant is large enough the safest way is to snip off a piece of rhizome. They ae usually runng along near the surface of the soil. Just be sure to get a piece with an "eye".

Speaking of the dichorisandra thyrsiflora, at my last home they were deciduous. Here in northeast FL the old stems are still standing and new ones are on the way. Should I cut off last year's growth? Stems look good but the leaves are a bit spotty.
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Mar 4, 2019 8:14 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
I wouldn't cut them off yet Alice. Sometimes new growth will come out of old places on the stems. Dichorisandra pendula does this as well
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Mar 4, 2019 8:37 AM CST
Name: Alice
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Thaks, I remember having the pendula also, must be lost in the old jungle. I know the folks that bought our home haven't a clue what was in the garden, should be interesting what they do with it all.
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Mar 4, 2019 9:07 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
I know that feeling. When we sold out home in 2003, the people who bought it saw it in December, we still had temps in the 70's-80's and had not had a freeze, we didn't get a freeze until early January, but fortunately they had already seen what was where and so when some of it went dormant they knew it was still there and coming back. There are still Ensete maurellii growing there that I planted in the late 1990's. We drive by once and a while and look at what's there. They kept almost everything I ever planted.
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