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sandy0225 · 12-15-2011, 08:09 AM

I've found that you have to have a certain kind of cut off pup for this to work. When you look at it from below, if you can see the layers where the pstems are all telescoped together, like cutting a tree, the "rings", then it won't work. You have to have enough of the corm so that you can't see that part. If you cut it to where there's no chunk of corm part at the bottom, just stem, then it won't root in a glass of water. But if it does have the corm part and it looks kind of like potato like that one up there did, then it will root almost every time.
I hope that makes sense...
The surprising thing about this one was that it took so long to root. Usually when I do this in summer and put them into the windowsill, I guess the sun keeps the water hot enough. They normally start to root for me in a week to two weeks, certainly within a month always.Heat seems to be the trick when you do this in cool weather.

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