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Old 11th December 2008, 12:58 AM
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Default Re: Propagation - leaf pulling with rhizome only

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Originally Posted by arvin555 View Post
Yeah, and I don't remember where I read it, but there was a forum member who actually made an experiment, bought a VFT and divided it by pulling off all the leaves and planting them, ended up with several plantlets.
I've actually done this. I bought 2 plants last March and tore them into pieces. Each of the leafs got a part of the rhizome. I was actually able to leave a good chunk of the rhizome in tact with roots and all, so the plants came back quickly. I probably ended up with somewhere around 50 plantlets from these 2 plants. After one summer, some of them are quite large, but most of them are pretty tiny still. I expect that they'll grow a lot this summer because they're pretty established now.
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