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Originally Posted by Mark Hall
Jack, would the new eye not grow quicker if roots were left on the corm?
Are these cake wedges placed on heatmats to encourage roots and growth or just put somewhere warm and left ?
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Now, this is a picture of Venezuela's production and it was written there, that they do it as mass production of new pups. That means several thousand plants a hA. That would kill their growing efforts to have such bills for heating mats, wouldn't it?
Also various sources have various information. Especially about post-cutting procedures. Some say it's good to use ash to help the healing process, some don't use it at all and place it to the soil/pots.
Dunno, someone will have to try, someone with reasonably large plants.
So I took a look into the books that I have at home and was able to get some more pics of this techniques (thanks to the National University of Nicaragua).
It's pretty much detailed and you can see the growth, if you zoom, even the eyes.
You can clearly see, that the corm is devided and buried slightly to the soil. No other extra activities are not necessary.
Btw. this technique can be googled (if you are patient enough) as Corm Division Reproduction techniques.
Hope you enjoy it.
One more thing: how many plants you can have with this method in average, from Central American Plantain records:
Btw. Ante, the sticky says 28°C (just like the meteo station in the coolest parts of Bratislava), my thermometer in the shade with no direct sunlight says 33°C.
This stickies are good for nothing in Europe.