I have a couple of male E. obesa and this one female. Earlier this season they all flowered and the female got nice large seed pods. I noticed one day that the seeds disappeared. I discovered later that the pods exploded and the seeds had scattered. Perhaps I will find some stray plants in some nearby pots.
As you can see the plant was damaged somehow and I now have some offsets. Is it safe just to twist off the offsets and place them on totally dry grit/soil? Will they grow new roots or is there a better way? I don't plan on doing anything until I try and isolate and harvest these possibly new seed pods, if I am successful at propagating this second batch of seeds.
Damaged obesa
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Re: Damaged obesa
It was easy for my Euphorbia meloformis, so I don't think you will have any difficulties rooting any offset. They will grow nicely once on their own roots too.
Re: Damaged obesa
Thanks, Aiko. Here are a couple of the males. Incidentally, these were grown from seeds I got from you Jan. 2013.
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Re: Damaged obesa
Hi Ivan.
I normally cut my offsets off, but you can twist them off. Do not throw the pot away as you will have
afew seeds which have just dropped down onto the compost just spray the pot with water now and
again and hopefully you should have afew seeds germinate. To stop the offsets from weeping sap i
stand the offsets in a saucer of water, i then root them inperlite and fine grit mixture i do not use
any sort of compost. Hope this helps.
I normally cut my offsets off, but you can twist them off. Do not throw the pot away as you will have
afew seeds which have just dropped down onto the compost just spray the pot with water now and
again and hopefully you should have afew seeds germinate. To stop the offsets from weeping sap i
stand the offsets in a saucer of water, i then root them inperlite and fine grit mixture i do not use
any sort of compost. Hope this helps.
Re: Damaged obesa
Thank-you Brian, it does help. I was planning on using a soil and grit mix but I will leave out the soil. I do have a third offset coming as well so I may have more than I bargain for.
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Re: Damaged obesa
You would do better waiting until next year, they won't do much this time of year.
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Re: Damaged obesa
One of my Euphorbia obesa seedlings got damaged and the offsets all look to be monstrose. Should be interesting to see what they do.