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Re: Philodendron aerial roots
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From: Lester Kallus <lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1997.11.20 at 00:19:12(1638)
I've not had the root rot problem when burying air roots on anthuriums. I
have a clarinervium that after a few years grows a long stem with leaves at
the top. I've generally just dug it up, cut a few of the underground roots
back so that I could bury it deeper and then buried the plant to a higher
level. The newly-buried air roots have survived the burial, have grown,
and the plant continues to thrive. I presume, though, that with such a
hardy plant, only a blow torch or a deep freeze would kill it and that it's
suriving this trivial torture easily.
Les
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At 01:49 PM 11/19/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I grow a lot of orchids, and I know that this is definitely the case with
>these plants.. If, when repotting, you bury roots that had been growing
>outside the medium, they tend to suffocate pretty quickly..
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>At 09:33 PM 11/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>>.. Sure, aerial roots
>>>>have a different epidermal layer than ones that are in potting media but
>>>>that is only because they are in air and not in media. But, when they
find
>>>>some type of media... they change.
>>>
>>>That's my point. My understanding is that subsurface roots are different
>>>than aerial roots, even if the two zones exist on the same root. Burying
the
>>>aerial portion often leads to rot of the root. If the aerial portion hits
>>>substrate and changes...I think the root is ok. Does this make any sense?
>>>
>>>Carlo
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>>This makes perfect sense from a biological standpoint. The root tip,=
just
>>like the growing tip, has what are termed meristem cells, that is, cells
>>that are actively dividing but may not have differentiated into specific
>>cell type (leaf, stem, root hair or whatever), so probably when this
>>meristem area first contacts some type of substrate suitable for rooting,
>>the cells behave appropriately (i.e. begin to differentiate). Now if=
you
>>bury this area rather than letting the root "feel" the ground first, you
>>may well short circuit the normal rooting mechanism, leading to the
>>observed rot.
>>
>>Don Martinson
>>Senior Research Associate
>>Department of Medicine
>>Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition
>>Medical College of Wisconsin, FMLH-West
>>9200 W. Wisconsin Ave.
>>Milwaukee, WI 53226
>>(414) 259-3817
>>dmartin@post.its.mcw.edu>
>
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