You don't need to cut your flowers ....

[Veek]

and put them in the soil to get new plantcuttings ... It happens automatically sometimes.

 

[Yossu]

That's amazing! Did you do anything to the stalk?

[Fryderyk]

How did you do it? D: 

[Veek]

I didn't so anything at all. It is all the plant its doing. I just found them like this and took pictures. :-)

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[Vampiresrus]

It's a false vivipary and once the plant or plants are growing on the stalk sprout roots you can pot them up. I do this all the time and it is an ideal way of getting plants that are identical to the parent plant.

 

Some years you get the odd one on a plant but other years so many on separate plants it is hard to keep up with them.

 

This year they are shooting up everywhere so I guess weather is a factor. I have noticed that they occur in mild years and extremely cold years.

[Veek]

The weather probably is a deciding factor. Normally I cut off all the flower stalks from my VFT and I always put the stalks in the pot. Many of them though not all of them throw up new plants this way.

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[Today_is_a_good_Day]

I did not know you could do this, will definitely be trying it next summer!

Just a quick thought, would success be improved by dipping the ends with hormone powder?

..just a thought


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[IWC]

In my experience, an additional treatment with hormone substances (rhizopan, clonex) on cutted VFT flower stems does not have any further positive effect on making them root. 

Cut them at an early stage (approx. 3 cm) and just put them into chopped sphagnum. Success rate under my conditions (ordinary GH in Southern Germany with no additional illumination) depends on the clone, mostly between 60 - 90 %.

Best regards,

 

IWC