tlturbo

Just what are you guys propogating??

At Tropical, I saw a neat way to propagate.
He tied a rope to the top of a tall culm and pulled it over until it was bent it over a good bit then tied the rope to a stake. Then he took plastic pots and cut a hole about the size of the culm on two opposite sides. Then he cut from the top of the pot, down through the middle of each hole to the bottom of the pot. This way he could "unfold" the pot, place it around a trimmed up node on the culm with the culm going alll the way through the pot by means of the 2 holes. Filled the pot with spaghnum or something and wired the pot closed. It looked stupid with all these pots tied to this tall cane but he said it worked real well as the cane was still attached to the root mass and grew better. When he saw a lot of plants, he just cut them all off and potted them up.