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Originally Posted by stevelau1911
is there any ways to really get it to focus on growing more pups rather than the size of the main plant?
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The quickest way I know is to simply tilt the plant. As the tilt increases so does the amount of apical dominance that will transfer to the pups. Once you pass 45 degrees the new cigar leaves will cease to grow from the distal end. 90 degrees or greater will make the apical dominance transfer quicker.
If you don't want to alter how your main plant looks then I would go with Vertical Propagation.
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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
Here's an easy one I call the "cincinnana technique" more photos can be seen on this member's flickr page.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hostaf...th/29144740623
This is a Florida that had it's pseudostem bent and it's growth angle to exceed 90 degrees to force dormancy which made the rhizome produce many pups. The mother plant's main growing point was restarted many months later after the pot was stood up. The long dormancy caused the mother plant to restart as a young tiny plant. I haven't confirmed this but I'm sure this process can be repeated for thousands of years with the same growing point.
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