How to Propagate Alocasia macrorrhizos from Rhizomes? Detailed Method and Steps

Alocasia macrorrhizos, a common household flower, has as its most notable feature that when water is plentiful, water drips from the leaf tips, and that sight is quite beautiful. In daily life, many people know how to grow Alocasia macrorrhizos, but few know how to propagate it. So today the editor will explain how to propagate Alocasia macrorrhizos from rhizomes?

I. How to propagate Alocasia macrorrhizos from rhizomes?

Rhizome propagation is cutting propagation

1. Cutting time: For Alocasia macrorrhizos, trunk-cutting and cuttings are suitable in spring, summer and autumn.

2. Cut the trunk at the base of the plant about 5 cm above the soil surface.

3. The cut old stem can be cut into branches about 15 cm long, placed in a shaded spot to air-dry for half a day, and then inserted into sandy loam soil for cultivation.

4. During cultivation of the old plant, because the environment is shaded and humid, or because the leaves are misted morning and evening every day in summer and autumn, a few new plants will occasionally sprout on the old stem, and many aerial roots will grow attached to it; you can snap them off at the junction between the offset and the mother plant and pot them for planting.

II. Precautions for propagating Alocasia macrorrhizos from rhizomes

1. For the part that is in a growing state, cut off all mature leaves, then pot it directly as a single plant; cultivation and cutting proceed at the same time, and after two months of growing it can become a mature plant with large leaves, tight branching and a short, sturdy, vigorous form, and placed indoors it has a certain elegant charm.

2. During cutting, the moisture of the substrate (6 parts sand: 4 parts garden soil) must be maintained, while air humidity is increased; in about 7-10 days many sturdy roots will grow.