Eucomis Leaf Cuttings

[LONGK]

About five or six weeks ago I decided to do some more Eucomis leaf cuttings. Neatly sliced up and placed on top of an equal mix of MPC, sand and polystyrene balls in my new 99p Shop pots (2 for 99p).....................


A couple of weeks ago I knocked one over and there was the first signs of rooting..................


Today the first embryonic bulbs are visible (ignore the polystyrene balls)...............


Happy days! :D

[AndyC]

I didn't know that you could propagate them like that, well done. The only thing I've managed to do with Eucomis this week is to snap a flower head of E.pole-evansii in half while pruning old leaves off the M.basjoo :roll:

[LONGK]

I didn't know that you could propagate them like that, well done. The only thing I've managed to do with Eucomis this week is to snap a flower head of E.pole-evansii in half while pruning old leaves off the M.basjoo :roll:

How frustrating is that!

Anyway, here are the results of my first attempt after a couple of years growth.....................

[JonK]

I've always meant to try and do some myself that way but never got round to it. I must try and remember next year :roll:

Well done :)

[charlie]

OK, how do you guys keep the slugs off them? with the exception of E. bicolor which grows like a weed the rest get chewed to bits. I had got as far as collecting these before I realized I couldn't grow them, so I have several very forlorn tatty clumps dotted around the garden which are very reliable at not flowering!

[LONGK]

OK, how do you guys keep the slugs off them? with the exception of E. bicolor which grows like a weed the rest get chewed to bits.

A combination of coffee grounds and slug pellets (sorry!). Having had a fair collection of perennial Lobelias nearby helped too!

I had got as far as collecting these before I realized I couldn't grow them, so I have several very forlorn tatty clumps dotted around the garden which are very reliable at not flowering!

If you feel guilty about the cruelty that your inflicting upon them........................ :lol:

[JonK]

Never really had any problems with slugs on several types of Eucomis whether in a pot or in the ground. Maybe they prefer other plants I grow :lol:
The local pheasants did like the look of the pole-evansii and gave them a good pecking as they were coming through.

[tony]

Whilst the blighters live deep down in the leaf axils I can't say I have ever had any slug or snail damage on Eucomis. On the other hand I cannot even see my hostas at the moment.

I dug up and moved my clump of Eucomis pole evansii recently and was surprised by the number of bulbules ( is that the word ) present. Leaf cuttings seem quite a lot of effort when you can dig them up and devide them for propogation but well done.

[LONGK]

I dug up and moved my clump of Eucomis pole evansii recently and was surprised by the number of bulbules ( is that the word ) present. Leaf cuttings seem quite a lot of effort when you can dig them up and devide them for propogation but well done.

E.pole evansii and autumnalis are the only two that produce offsets in pots for me. Any Eucomis left in the ground out here is toast once it hits -10°c which it does many winters at some point.
Sparkling Burgundy and Oakhurst never produce offsets for me, even when planted out. And to be fair it's a ten minute job.