Overenthusiasm with a knife

Post by **MikeDom** » Sat May 04, 2019 4:14 pm

When you suddenly realise that maybe you've taken too many cuttings of your Tylecodon fergusoniae

Post by **Phil_SK** » Sat May 04, 2019 4:56 pm

Is there anything left of the plant from which these cuttings came?

Post by **MikeDom** » Sat May 04, 2019 5:07 pm

A couple of 6" stumps is all that's left. This doesn't include the branches I knocked off by accident that lay on the greenhouse floor for 3 months and have just rooted after a fortnight in wet sand. As if I needed any more plants …

Post by **Tina** » Sun May 05, 2019 4:45 am

ooh poor little plant, you must have some seriously scared plants that flinch when you have a knife. Must be why you have such nice plants, the poor growing ones get hacked up and others see the example and grow well so they ' aren't next '

Post by **Chez2** » Sun May 05, 2019 7:13 am

oh dear you did have fun!

Post by **MikeDom** » Sun May 05, 2019 8:52 am

It all started when I gave my Trichodiadema bulbosum a 'light' trim and I decided to save some for cuttings (see below) … the more woody parts of the stems ending up on the compost heap. The many Pelargonium crithmifolium and P. mirabile plants were next, but have a stay of execution this year.

Oh, and I didn't charge up the garden in a rage brandishing an 8" kitchen knife, in case that's the way it comes across. Tylecodon are poisonous, after all, so I used my penknife and I walked.

Post by **MikeDom** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 3:42 pm

Not the best focused photos, but interesting to see how a sample of 5 of the Tylecodon have rooted. They form rings of root 'teeth' mainly round the inside and outside of the epidermis. Reminds me of the inside of a wasps nest when you cut across it.

These roots are quite hard to the touch.

Post by **ralphrmartin** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 5:02 pm

Excellent photos!

I find that my Tylecodon cuttings often form a swollen base to the stem before throwing out roots.

Post by **MikeDom** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 5:06 pm

Thanks Ralph, yes there is the swollen base which you can see in the first photo. I didn’t have this good a root system on the original plants.

Terry S. · Post by **Terry S.** » Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:26 am

This is a new name to me, so I had to Google it. It appears to be a hybrid of Tylecodon paniculatus x cacalioides. Do you have a photo of the plant before you chopped it MikeDom? And does anyone know if it is of wild origin or from cultivation?. The fact that it has been given a Latin epithet suggests wild origin.

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