Some Caricature cuttings

I bought a Caricature plant that I tried so hard to grow. It was about half dead when I bought it hoping that maybe I could save it. Well, it just got worse and worse. However, I started taking cuttings and putting them in water. They all rooted and then I put them in soil. Here are a few of them that have a nice set of roots and are growing fine. By spring I will have so many of them that I am thinking about setting up a table in my front yard and selling them. I still have the receipt for this plant and can still take it back and get my money back if I choose to. The cuttings that I took were not from any of the main stems, only the pieces of the plant that had completely fallen over and looked dead. It is amazing what you can do to a dead looking piece of plant. Here are the ones that have rooted and are growing nicely in a pot. When you take cuttings like this to save for next spring, what do you put them in? Nursery pots, styrofoam cups, ect.?

Jesse

This message was edited Oct 22, 2006 11:33 PM

Jess I'd put them in nursry pots w/ good potting soil.

I'm not familiar with this plant, I love the variegation. What zone is it hardy? I would probably keep them inside in 4" pots (unless they grow enough to need potting up).

Jesse
I have lots of these in the garden and still in pots , they do really well down here. I've had them near death from thirst and tropical sun burn and have been able to revive them with lots of running water or submerging the whole pot in a bucket. They grow fast towards the light so I like them in pots so i can spin them to keep the growth even.

Well I hate to admit this but the thing got to looking so bad that I took it back to HD and traded it for the other kind of Caricature plant. I really like this one better but I have enough cuttings to make a lot of plants. So one day I will have one anyway. My new one is really pretty. And hopefully I can keep it looking nice and pretty. Here is a photo of my new Graptophyllum Pictum. The other one was G. P. Waimea and I liked the colors a little better. But I have some growing and will have some baby plants growing now. I think I might take some cuttings of this one too in case something happens to it. I'm learning that you always take a cutting of everything you buy and that way if the plant dies you will still have a piece of it left.

Jesse

That's a beauty.

I first saw this plant at Krohn Conservatory here in Cincy.
It was actually a stunning small tree or large shrub.
Luckily I took a shot of the tag. Unluckily I've not found it around here...lol

Here's a shot.

Ric

Jesse those are both cool! I've never seen them around here. The red stem really makes it pop out at you!
:) Donna

I had a *huge* one of these up until last year.....I'm not sure what happened to it, I had set the pot on top of the soil of a potted palm, and it ended up rooting into the palm's soil....that palm succumbed, too.
It's really easy to grow in a nice sunny window, and tends to get pretty large!

There's a garden center around here that had these plants every spring....naturally they didn't have them this past spring.....I'll check again this coming spring and buy a few extras if they do.

Great idea, Nan!
:) Donna