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Old 12-28-2025, 12:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Instead of tossing this slightly variegated dwarf namwa it was cleaned and potted for propagation.





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Old 12-31-2025, 11:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Send it here and I'll take good care of it!
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I used to leave any roots I could save on my corms until you showed us that you clean them to propagate. Do you use any fungicide at all?
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I used to leave any roots I could save on my corms until you showed us that you clean them to propagate. Do you use any fungicide at all?
The use of a fungicide is really dependent on what I'm trying to accomplish but in this situation I'll be using a pure sulfur powder to promote plant callus on all freshly exposed corm tissue. But when I'm using the plant callus as the propagation material I don't use a fungicide.

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Looking good mate, mine are all still sleeping and trying to survive the winter, I've notice a couple of casualties already sadly.
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I just got lucky and found a nicely variegated namwa in the horse's area. I toss all the unwanted rhizomes in there because they love eating the leaves and eventually all the plants will die so it's a win win. It's fairly common for an all green offshoot from a variegated mother plant to produce a variegated offshoot. I wouldn't waste time propagating these all green plants but collecting the feral variegated ones is worth it.
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