Instead of tossing this

PR-Giants · 12-28-2025, 12:04 PM

Instead of tossing this slightly variegated dwarf namwa it was cleaned and potted for propagation.

harveyc · 12-31-2025, 11:32 PM

Send it here and I'll take good care of it!

Jeff zone 8 N.C. · 01-01-2026, 11:45 AM

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?

PR-Giants · 01-04-2026, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff zone 8 N.C.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callus_(cell_biology)

PR-Giants · 02-10-2026, 07:35 AM

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUgF19PDkg0/?img_index=1

all43 · 02-10-2026, 12:13 PM

Looking good mate, mine are all still sleeping and trying to survive the winter, I've notice a couple of casualties already sadly.

PR-Giants · 02-10-2026, 06:19 PM

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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