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- It's that easy to pull new offshoots from your Madagascar palm
- The best time to cut offshoots
- Extract offshoots from cuttings
- Prepare pots with potting soil
- Protect your hands!
- Tips
The Madagascar palm is propagated via side shoots
It's that easy to pull new offshoots from your Madagascar palm
Madagascar palms are not palm trees but belong to the succulents. On the trunk side shoots form, from which can be easily breed new offshoots. So cut and care for offshoots of the Madagascar palm.
The best time to cut offshoots
If you want to cut off offshoots of your Madagascar palm, you need a healthy mother plant. She must have formed runners.
Shorten the lateral shoots during the growth phase. The best way to root the cuttings is to cut them in the spring.
Extract offshoots from cuttings
The side shoots are separated directly under a knot with a sharp knife or a pair of scissors. Then leave them for a few hours so that the cut ends can dry out. Then remove the lower leaves.
Some gardeners recommend simply placing the cuttings in a glass of water. In this case, you only have to be careful when planting the rooted offspring later. The roots are very delicate and break easily.
Prepare pots with potting soil
Prepare small pots with potting soil. Fine cactus soil is sufficient. Insert the shoots into the ground so far that at least one eye remains above.
Place the pots in as bright and warm a place as possible. Direct sun is not cheap.
As soon as there are first new leaves on the shoots, you may repot the small offshoots. Maintain it like adult plants.
Protect your hands!
Madagascar palms are not only poisonous in all plant parts, they also carry a lot of spines on the trunk. These can be very uncomfortable when they penetrate into the hand. Simple gloves do not protect against the spikes!
Wrap the trunk of the Madagascar palm with foil wherever you need to touch it if you want to cut off the lateral shoots.
Use only clean and sharp cutting tools, so that you do not transmit disease germs.
Tips
Except from cuttings, Madagascar palms can also be propagated from seeds. Seeds are available from specialist retailers. However, the ambient temperature must be very high for the seeds to germinate.