Well, I have finally lost my mind but I decided I wanted to see if it would work. I have very large, thick stemmed leaves on my Phanomenal and I decided to remove the bottom most leaves to encourage more top growth. The leaf stems were so large I decided to see if they would develop nubs as the cuttings do. I cut off most of the leaf and was left with a six inch piece and placed it in water. It is developing nubs.
I also have one I stuck directly in the soil in one of my large pots and I can't tell anything about that yet except it is still firm after 7 days.
Has anyone else ever tried this?
Rooting Brug Leaves
I haven't tried this... Ido know any bit of plant tissue can be spured to develop a plant with.. tissue culture takes a small bit and through regulation of the conditions and chemicals in the rooting medium.. allows new plants to be formed.. you could get thousands of new plants from that one big leaf..
what germination conditions are you providing.. to keep your humidity high on the leaf.. are you using any rooting hormones.. what light conditions are you providing..
good luck with your research
All I have done is remove the leaf from the plant, cut off all of the leaf but the beginning of the flare at the junction (this shows me it is a leaf) and stick it in a glass of water on my window sill. This is the same way I root my cuttings in the Summer months.
The other leaf that is outside, I trimmed as above and pushed into the soil in a pot that houses a large brug.
I will let you know what happens for sure.
im gonna try this... see what happens
Last night I took some leaves from another plant but the stems were slightly smaller (about the diameter of a pencil) than the first one I am working with. Overnight I have seen no white nubs on the new leaves(the first one showed nubs overnight).
The first plant was over two years old and the leaf stems had the barky texture at the base that an easy to root cutting has - I wonder if this is the difference.
I will persevere.
It's been so hot and humid in my yard - I water daily with the in-ground sprinkler system - that I have 'nubbies' on the stems of several of my brugs that are in the ground - no roots developing, though.
I took a leafy side shoot out and it is now rooting in a rooting pot . ready to transplant into the ground.. this leafy sideshoot was half broken off and partially hardened off before I did this.. saw this post and decided to share with you the experience..
Update:
All of my first leaves turned to limp BUT I have a set of three leaves that I removed over a week ago and they are still firm and the nubbies look very good.
I am going to put them into dampened sphagnum moss next to see if they will advance.
The experiment marches on.........
I rooted some Echinacea leaves in a bubbler last year using an aquarium airstone. I bet this would work with your Brug leaves too. I used Clonex gel to help with rooting.
After the leaf roots, it may not produce a plant easily. If so, you can try spraying it with something like Configure or some other form of benzyladenine (6-BA) at 300 parts per million. I have seen this product do some amazing things!
I hope your leaf cuttings take. Good luck. You've inspired me to try some more experiments with my plants.