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Olafhenny
08-06-2013, 10:06 PM
I have acquired earlier this year an Ensete Maurelli and frequently checked for pups.


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=54059 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54059&ppuser=7269)

Now I read in an article that Ensetes do not pup. So how do they propagate?

Thanks,
Olaf

brod
08-07-2013, 06:26 PM
Seed only in this case. Some cut the stem to ground level and force offsets. But this is a bit drastic. Once my Ensete ventricosum has produced seed I'm going to try the decapitation method on one of the seedlings for an experiment.

Olafhenny
08-07-2013, 11:08 PM
I guess, that leaves me out of raising ensetes. Here in HZ6 I will never get any fruit and chopping
up the corm (do they have any? I have never seen mine 'barefoot'), will also not work, if they do
not produce any pups.

jmoore
08-08-2013, 03:24 AM
Maurellis are tissue cultured, but you can make them pup by destroying the growing point. There is an old thread relating to this somewhere.

Is this site news?

sunfish
08-08-2013, 03:40 AM
http://www.bananas.org/f2/corm-propagation-success-13011-2.html#post161014

Olafhenny
08-08-2013, 10:15 AM
Thanks James and Tony, I just found that site and it will give me something to work through,
since I have also a wintering problem in HZ6

I accidentally removed the 'Thanks' to James, then reopened the same thread anew through the
email before I closed the one with the removed 'Thanks' and reinstated it. I hope it stays now. :)