Ask the Expert: how and where do you snip the flower for replant one is a golden pothos, other is a parlor palm i want replant.
Laura
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Ask the Expert: how and where do you snip the flower for replant one is a golden pothos, other is a parlor palm i want replant.
Laura
Laura,
Let’s start with the Golden pothos. Propagation is done through stem cuttings. Cut the stem of the golden pothos about an inch to two inches below a knuckle or node at a 45 degree angle – sometime there will already be small roots at the knuckle. Dip the cut into rooting hormone and place in moist soil. keep the soil moist but not soggy until it roots. Then you can care for it the same way you care for the mother plant.
As for the Parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegans), most plams are progated trhough seed only. However, the Chamaedorea genius has several palms that can be vegetatively reporduced. You will have to air-layer the plam using the conspicuous aeial roots at the stem nodes. Applying a swath of moist sphagnum peat moss around one to several nodes and wrapping the area in aluminum foil. Roots will grow in the moss and when suffiicent roots have form you can cut the stem from the parent plant and pot it.
I have a 30+ yr old 4 ft parlor palm with two stems. The plan has gotten too big for our very small house . We purchased the the palm just before we got married and it has significant sentimental value so we don’t want to lose it. If I cut the stems off about a foot high will the palm sprout new fronds and continue to grow?
David,
As far as I know, if you cut the main green stems of the parlor palm, it will cause the plant to quit growing.