E Z Clone
Rick Buell via pbs (Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:15:35 PST)

I've seen instructions, probably on youtube, where a large hippeastrum bulb has the basal plate cut from the bottom 'like a pie into 8 or more sections, cut no deepet than 1" or so. The upper part of the bulb is left intact, treated with a fungicide, and planted in a pot. This might be a more certain method than working with leaves?

Rick Buell
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On Thu, 2/15/18, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> wrote:

Subject: [pbs] E Z Clone
To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018, 8:22 PM

By chance I have obtained a machine called an
E Z Clone, which is still
in its box. It is meant to root
cuttings. The cutting is treated with
rooting hormone and put in a collar
such that the lower end of the stem
is in a dark chamber where it is
constantly misted or sprayed. The top
of the cutting is out in the air and
benefits from a window or a plant
light. I was wondering whether anybody
on the forum had tried to root or
multiply a bulb with this, instead of
an herbaceous or woody cutting.

If the bulb were, for example, a
culinary onion, I would think it
possible to place the basal plate on my
cutting board and cut down
through the onion´s peak, perhaps
several times, making eight little
white onionettes, each with some basal
plate and hormone goo, and try to
stick each through a plastic collar so
that just the bottom part was in
the wet chamber. Perhaps this is an
idiotic idea.

Another method might be to sprout the
bulb in dirt and try to make roots
grow on a removed leaf.

Has anybody tried this? Should the
machine stay in the box?

And as for what is blooming here in
Massachusetts: nothing. We call this
winter.

We are collecting groundhog recipes.

Jane Sargent

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