Re: Help about rooting ferns

I would definately defer to Nancy for a more authoritative answer, but
will none-the-less throw in my 2 cents.  I don't know any ferns that
will root from "STEM" cuttings, but there is at least one I know of that
forms plantlets on the fronds - Diplazium proliferum.  I easily rooted
13 new plants from a single frond that had formed plantlets.

Marge Talt wrote:
>
> 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

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