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Originally Posted by revensen
I'm surprised you say it doesn't work when you posted several times on a thread that describes this process.
Propagation through corm cutting
It's post number three where Jack describes this method. Further down he says he read somewhere that this was the number one method of propagating the ensete. |
They mostly describe the technique for the genus Musa, not Ensete. The difference is that in Musa you are damaging the apical meristem and thus breaking the apical dominance of the corm and allowing the preexisting axilary buds to develop into shoots. In Ensete, you break the apical dominance of the corm by damaging the apical meristem, but since there are no axilary buds that will form into shoots, it initiates a process of shoot organogenesis from callus tissue that forms. In this case, the corm is best left whole. If you cut the pseudostem down to just above the meristem, cut a slice thru the meristem just to damage it, then shoots will form in the center of the corm.