Re: Help about rooting ferns
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Help about rooting ferns
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:59:29 -0400
Well, Joe, there might be a fern out there that will root from a
cutting, but I've never heard of it. If Nancy Swell's on this list,
she would know for sure. Nancy...are you there?
As far as I know ferns are propagated either by spore or division.
Most ferns will divide pretty easily - best done just as new growth
starts, tho'. Depending on the fern's growth pattern, it's often
easy to detach a section of rhizome from the edge of the clump
without digging up the whole thing.
Some form very congested masses of tough fibrous rhizome and those
would be impossible to snatch from.
But those who form more or less single rhizomes or loose masses of
rhizome will provide small sections easily. If yours is one of
these, just loosen the soil at the edge and feel around with your
fingers until you identify a rhizome and break or cut it off - try to
bring some roots with it, if you can - makes it easier on the fern to
grow on. Hard to describe right, but easy to do.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: cajun Joe <cajun4@HOME.COM>
> Date: Monday, August 28, 2000 2:36 PM
>
> Hello - Is there any way of rooting ferns by putting cuttings in
water, or
> soil?
>
> Do you know of any simple method of rooting ferns, other then
breaking them
> apart, and re-planting?
>
> Thanks = Cajun
