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[INDOOR-GARDENING:407] Re: Chinese Evergreen

I'm a "brand-new" listmember, but I have a little experience with this.
 
Yes, you can propagate the silver queen through cutting.  I was given a
"discard" SQ from my office building which was, as the landscaper
described it, "very leggy"  I tried to air-layer it, but having never
had success with that method, I ended up accidentally snapping all the
stems off.  I've also never used rooting compound, I just poked those
cut-off stems right into the soil next to their parents. Not all of
them took, I'd say perhaps 30% of them rotted off, but everyone else
looks very happy, including the parent stems, which have grown new
leaves themselves. 

Don't feel too terribly about rotting them off with too much watering. 
I have the remains of a snake plant that I decimated through too much
watering.  (despite my mother's tongue-in-cheek advice that there's no
known way to kill a snake plant)  Hopefully these last 2 stalks will
make it, but I don't really know. It's in a far-too-large pot and I
haven't watered it for about a month now, and I'm keeping my fingers
crossed.

So good luck with your Silver Queen.  
Jillian

> Original message:
> 

> I looked up propagation techniques for the chinese
> evergreen, and "cuttings"
> wasn't one of them (division was).
> 
> Has anyone experienced anything similar?
> 
> Thanks,
> Donna>>
> 
> 

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