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Olafhenny · 05-15-2011, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Dreaminofthetropics

Very very interesting thread! I love seeing the progress! I just transplanted about 30-40 corms and was wondering how long before growth started now I know I probably better learn to be patient LOL It's been almost a week now :-)

This is the kind of response I find very encouraging. To me equally important to achieving beautiful plants and
plantings is the experimentation with (to me at least) new approaches and to report on the failures as well as the little
triumphs. Only by evaluating all, can we expect to learn, and even to break new ground. And breaking new ground is
basically something we all want to do, by “moving the “Tropics further north”.

I have with almost all the threads, which I started, tried to report more on the procedure, than on the results.

So, to bring you up to date as far as my M. Ornata is concerned, here are a couple of pictures. Showing them as they are today:

This photo shows, that the primary pup of the mother is doing quite well, but the second one, visible near the upper left
corner of the pot, has not progressed at all for a couple of weeks

This is the pup which I had separated in Vietnam already. After long dormancy it regenerated itself, and not
through a pup as did mama.

Here are the two siblings side by side. The smaller one is the older one and was, before separated from its mother, quite
a bit larger than either one is now . I hope that they will become the progenitors of a whole slew of M. Ornatas

I have other similar threads, which record the process and to which I will add more shortly:
My quest for ginger

And:
My Banana Experience (or lack of it)