"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:
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I'm delighted to find your cultural advice as sound as usual!

Planting the individual umbrellas on around an inch of leaf stem
will produce one or two shoots from between the individual leaves
eventually with one usually becoming dominant.

That's very interesting: I'll try it. Does seasonal light-intensity
matter for this method?

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Bottom heat in a cheapo non-thermostat propogator. Cover left on, and
given plenty of humidity (despite information given for full sized plant)
Started around April\May in a south facing window , the shoots start showing
between the leaves after around 12 weeks to 16 weeks. First you get
knobbly bits and then one or two burt into growth. However by that time
a node cutting with the umbrella stalk left on, will be producing its
fourth or fifth leaf stem, and will already be out of the propogator.
These are all approximations.

The floor of the propogator was covered in gravel which was thoroughly
moistened and the individual cuttings were started in 2 and a half inch
pots with liberal application of possibly stale rooting hormone. All made
strong root growth with adventitious roots into the gravel before any top
growth was visible on most of them.

michael adams








They can also be arial rooted fairly easily, but it's more bother
than its worth IMO.

Right.

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Mike.