Re: How can plants be propagated by leaf cuttings?
- To: propagation@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: How can plants be propagated by leaf cuttings?
- From: G* Y* <g*@netasia.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:45:46 +0800
At 06:00 PM 1/8/99 -0800, you wrote:
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>>
>> Plants with fleshy leaves or thick petioles may frequently be propagated
by leaf cuttings. The Rex Begonia is the most familiar example illustrating
this method. The leaves may be cut into a number of more or less triangular
pieces, each of which has a large piece of one of the main veins of the
leaf. When such pieces are inserted half their depth into the sand, the
veins will callous and the young plantlets start from this point.
>>
I have tried this with Peperomia argyreia (watermelon peperomia) and
observed fine roots to be growing from the leaf cutting and all over the
media, but it took a long time (3 to 4 months) before the plantlets
appeared. Would feeding have sped this up?
George
Metro-Manila, Philippines
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