There are many different techniques and understanding the basics will help in choosing what works best in each situation.
One plant can produce thousands of new plantlets but for us maximum output is less desirable than speed.
The variegated rhizome in the top photo will basically activate each those buds in a specific order and allow us to remove a large pup about every 6 days. This is the advantage of having it focus it's resources on just a few buds at a time.
The bottom photo is what happens by mutilating one of those buds.
My first post was to point out that the main plant can be removed and replanted instead of killing it.
I prefer to use clean coarse sand as the medium because it'll last forever, it drains well, has great aeration, and it's easy to keep the humidity perfect.
There are many options with macropropagation and understanding how apical dominance changes is interesting and useful.
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Originally Posted by mcfly
Hi PR-Giants,
Thanks for your reply as well. I read that on top of removing/killing the main growth point, for maximum output, to identify growth points on the sides of the pared corn and slicing an ‘x’ on each one to obtain multiple growths out of each individual growth point. Not too deep as you don’t want to kill that growth point. However, I have not seen any close up pics to identify those growth points. It was referred to it as the PIF technique.
Then as the pups start shooting off, the bigger ones you are supposedly able to cut off (killing) and then you x in that growth point to get more pups from there. Like you mentioned, this process could go on for eternity.
Do you have a picture of your prepared corn, all pared down and ready to go? I am going to try with and expendable Basjoo I have in order to test the methods discussed.
Mcfly
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