African Red propagation experiment
After Musa 'African Red' had a hard time indoors this winter and lost main stem and three pups to rot and Red Spider Mite I decided to experiment.I took the corm out of the pot and washed most of the soil off it , then I put it back in the pot exposed to the air but for small amounts of potting soil that was mixed in with the roots. I thought to treat it like a Dahlia tuber , when you want to propagate a ton of Dahlia shoots you just remove it from the soil and lay it on top of some barely damp compost and cut off shoots as they come along until the energy in the tuber is used up. Well it seems to have worked with the African Red as there are 5 pups coming up at the moment and perhaps more I cannot yet see. I'll start to remove them as they get big and see how many I can get going.
I love to experiment with plants but the plants may not love it so much :-).
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I had not read about it .
Later
Steve
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