View Full Version : Gunnera Manicata - When is the best time to divide pups?
stevelau1911
06-15-2010, 09:21 PM
My gunnera manicata has developed several pups on each mother bulb and I want to produce new plants so when would it be OK to take them off without either harming the mother and getting a division that survives? They grow almost the same way as bananas except they stay very close to the ground.
Here's my giant rhubarb.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=32851&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32851&ppuser=6098)
MediaHound
07-03-2010, 06:56 PM
Not sure but I edited the thread title to put in "Gunnera Manicata - " so that it might catch the attention of someone else who has grown this or other Gunneras.
I tried growing a gunnera once but they turned to mush (I killed them). I'm the last person to give advice about keeping them, lol.
Good luck though, they are nice...
Abnshrek
07-03-2010, 07:08 PM
Well they look like they grow a lot like EE's or calocasia. I did a couple successfully divisions. The main thing I did was make sure to keep the soil around the one I was dividing intact as much as possible so when put someplace else it had less transition time. :^)
sunfish
07-03-2010, 09:04 PM
Gunnera Manicata - Chile Rhubarb & Giant Rhubarb (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CB8QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.letsgogardening.co.uk%2FPD%2FGunnera.htm&ei=wOsvTK37E5rtnQfcl-32Aw&usg=AFQjCNFpK_2u7n5HnO4KAMkerWNglqmC7g)
stevelau1911
07-03-2010, 09:07 PM
This plant has doubled in size since that last picture and the pups are clearly growing on their own now, but I don't want to take off any pups now which might slow its growth momentum, so I might wait until spring to pull a few off. It should be pretty huge by the end of the season.
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