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Old 08-10-2012, 07:38 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Default Re: Factors that encourage pupping?

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Originally Posted by sandy0225 View Post
If you want them to pup as soon as possible, grow out your young one to at least three feet of pstem if it's not a dwarf. Then grind your teeth together, cut it off at the ground level, and take a knife and dig out the center growing point so it's totally destroyed and can't grow back. Then you'll force it to make pups. That's what I do with my aeae, but it sure does make you nervous!
What Sandy said or even more drastic, after cutting off at the ground, dig up the corm. Spray the remaining soil off from the roots and proceed to slice the corm.

I've done this a couple times with really good success.

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