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This is a new page and a new idea for this web site. Over the years I have received many questions from people on many topics. I was wondering what I should do with those questions and have been saving them for some future time, well, that future time has now come.
January 26. Andrea wrote:
I am a master gardener trainee who was fortunate to receive a cutting from your
dracaena marginata yesterday. Unfortunately I missed your instructions about how
to propagate it. All I heard was to put it in a box with vermiculite. Could you
please tell me more? I would really appreciate it. I just checked out the
website. It is very impressive. I'm going to book mark it and will not doubt use
it extensively. Thank you.
And by
email I answered.
I should have said that you take a box or other container, put some perlite or
vermiculite or even some sphagnum moss in the container, lay the dracaena log on
the surface, keeping the whole contents moist but not soggy, cover the container
with a clear plastic or glass cover so it won't dry out. Place the container in
a well lighted place (but not in the sun) and in due time the log will sprout
new shoots and/or roots at one or more of the nodes and later when the shoots
have reached some size planting the whole thing in a suitable pot or other
container. It will take time but that is one thing that we sometimes have on
hand. Thanks for writing.
For more information go to Plant Propagation
02/01/2009