Re: pruning Anthuriums

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2002.02.11 at 21:29:16(8191) Dear Tsuh Yang, Yes, it is possible to cut off all leaves of an anthurium specimen and still have a nice plant in six months or so. That?s what I did in every plant I brought from the field. Otherwise I would have to bring more or less 20 huge leafy Anthuriums in the plane! What a suitcase I would need! The only problem is that some species are rather slow growers. I have a plant of Anthurium thrinax I brought from Amap? state in August 2000 and it only has two leaves (the second one appeared two months ago)... Very best wishes, Eduardo. +More >From: Piabinha@aol.com >Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org >To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L >Subject: pruning Anthuriums >Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:50:12 -0600 (CST) > >hi all, > >is it possible to cut off all of an anthurium's leaves (for ease of >shipment) >and not cripple it? i have an unidentified bird's nest type plant that i >bought as a seedling at a farmer's market. it's now huge and i wanted to >ship or transport it but with those huge leaves sticking out in all >directions, it is very difficult. could i cut off all the leaves and will >it >sprout again from the crown? > >tsuh yang Eduardo G. Goncalves Laboratorio de Fitoquimica Depto. de Botanica - IB Universidade de Sao Paulo Caixa Postal 11461 - CEP 05422-970 Sao Paulo - SP - BRAZIL e-mail: edggon@hotmail.com edggon@ib.usp.br Phone: 55 11 3818-7532 FAX : 55 11 3818-7547 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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