Re: norfolk island pine

**J* E* M* S* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

Thanks everyone for your help with the Norfolk Island pine. What a great group!

jems

On Jun 6, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Susan McCoy wrote:

Hey all, according to grower Mike Rimland from Costa Farms, who grows about 95% of all Norfolk Island Pines in the US, "You cannot make a new plant by cutting it. It virtually is impossible to root a cutting. Maybe a air-layer but any plant that is that old in a low metabolic state will be hard to propagate. We produce them from seeds."

He also recommends not pruning the tree. Instead turn the pot 180 degrees and over time it will turn back to the light. 

Jo Ellen, he also said, "If it is 20 years old that is amazing. Where is the plant located? What city?"

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