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Originally Posted by Jeff zone 8 N.C.
After cutting the trunk down and then looking down from the top of the corm, would cutting the meristem with a cross (quartering the meristem) but keeping the corm mainly intact or slicing all the way through the corm and placing the pieces on their side give a better chance of quicker propagation? Also if not worried about time restraints would this method have any negative drawbacks?
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I wouldn't do either of those techniques for propagation purposes mainly because it's quicker, easier and more effective to use a 2 by 4 or a hammer.
If you look at some propagation manuals on this forum you'll see that all these techniques that damage the apical meristem are somewhat similar. That's basically how tissue culture labs divide the meristems, obviously absent the sterile conditions they use.
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