Cordyline - Enrooting

Posted under Non-blooming plants by ruola

 

 

 

Cordyline gives good opportunities to make a nice composition and decoration of your house. When the plant is big enough (about 30 cm) you can notice outgrowths appearing on its scrape. That can happen without your help or you can cut the top of the plant and soon have the outgrowths here and there. Think of the future composition in advance and remove the outgrowths you don’t need. Usually gardners leave two outgrowths on opposite sides of the plant and at the same level. By the way the cut top of the plant you can put into the water and as soon as it gives roots you can plant it and have another Cordyline in your house.

Give your imagination freedom: together with the cut Cordyline you can seed some low growing plants — thus you’ll have an immitation of the tree and the grass under it.

For now i didn’t cut my Cordyline because i like it as it is — it has luxurious foliage. Though it is normal if the scrape gets bold and the plant is covered with foliage only by half. In this case you can easily cut the plant trying to make it more interesting.

 

 When you enroot the cut top of Cordyline make sure you don’t put it too deep into the pot. In future you might have problems with it as the outgrowths will grow directly from the soil and it will be too late to remove without hurting the plant.

 

Unfortunately i’ve made this mistake and on the picture you can see it. What i’ve done is first of all removed the layer of the soil to find the place where the outgrowth comes from. Then i cut the outgrowth. I put it into the water and later i’m going to write later about the results.