Okay, so this is what I am thinking. I have about a dozen flowering stalks with green plantlets at the tip. I have a 355 day growing climate. What if I just pin the stalks to the ground and allow the plantlets to root that way? The plantlets will still be attached to the mama plant but they will be sitting parallel to the ground rather than with their posteriors set into the ground. Will that be a problem for rooting? MIllie, I have powdered rooting hormone and a liquid (dip-it or dip and grow or something like that). Gel sounds like a better medium than powder or liquid. What gel can consumers purchase? Nan On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Millie Burrell wrote: > I thought I'd add that if you lightly scratch the basal end of the > offshoot and dab some rooting gel on it before sticking it in a ½ > peat: ½ perlite mixture, you'll have even better success in > rooting. By a slight injury to the epidermal layer, you will > accomplish two things: 1) auxin flows downward in the plant (auxin > is the hormone that stimulates rooting) and 2) the new cells that > form at the injured site will be callus cells that are non- > differentiated and are easily coerced by that application of auxin > in your rooting gel to form roots. > > Cheers, > Millie > > > > Millie Burrell > Plant Genetics and Systems Laboratory > Department of Biology > Texas A&M University > Norman Borlaug Center > MS 2123 > College Station, TX 77843-2123 > millieb@tamu.edu > > > > > >>>> TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com 10/05/05 3:21 PM >>> >>>> > Can anyone give me instructions for propagating Neomarica from the > plantlets that form at the tips of flowering stalks? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >