Re: [Aroid-l] Slow rooting

From: Sheldon Hatheway sfhatheway at yahoo.com> on 2006.04.09 at 21:13:27(14079) I've never had Sanseveria root slowly, but my one attempt at rooting Zamioculcas zamiifolia was a real cliff-hanger! Knowing my compulsive-obsessive disorder regarding broken off leaves, the floral manager at our local store gave me a leaf that had broken off with instructions to root it if I could. Well, I took it home, carefully cut off each of the leaflets, and stuck them in some dampened, sterile potting mix in a clear plastic bag. They just sat there, and sat there, and sat there for 14 MONTHS!!! Then one day I guess they just gave up and started sending up little shoots. I guess some things just can't be hurried up. Now I'm trying to propagate a caladium leaf that also had the good grace to fall off. I cut across several of the main "veins" the way we do for some begonias and gloxinias and laid it out flat on some sterile mix in high humidity and bright but not direct light. If you know that this is an exercise in futility, don't tell me. Just let me live in my dream world for a little while longer. Sheldon Hatheway +More Canby, OR Zone 7B or 8 or whatever __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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