I can't not propagate. If one of my anthuriums set seed, I propagate every seed. I do this because anthuriums are promiscuous plants LOL. They actually cross-pollinate in a closed environment like a greenhouse quite easily. I am hoping to someday grow out my own new natural hybrid. Maybe a variegated one with stable variegation. Big dreams! I also am addicted to propagating my outdoor hedychium gingers by seed. Almost every bloomed stalk here sets seed because the flowers are heavily visited by bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, tree frogs, and native species of flies and wasps. I cut off the seed heads this time of year and just plant the whole head in areas I don;t already have Hedychiums and they quickly sprout small plants that will grow unless it freezes. Then in Spring they will come up and continue to grow on. Slower than rhizome division, but then again, maybe I might get a natural hybrid some day! I also propagate my many different aroids (Philodendrons, Monsteras, Anthuriums, etc) by stem cuttings. And some of my orchids are easily propagated. It is an addiction! I recently propagated this long (about 4') stem of a vining anthurium. This is from a large plant which is a huge growing plant...A. clavigerum. It was going up a totem I had not gotten around to re-padding and a section had separated from the totem and defoliated. I cut it at the point of defoliation and topped it, replanted the top onto a good new padded totem, left the stem and re-did its totem, and planted the base of the leafless stem. It is now putting out new leaves at the leaf nodes.
