Content
- Zamioculcas easily multiply by offshoot
- Only use healthy mother plants for reproduction
- Insert leaf cuttings in growing substrate
- Rooted cuttings with several leaves
- Tips
The Zamioculcas offshoots should have at least four leaves
Zamioculcas easily multiply by offshoot
Cardboard Paper Palm, Lucky Feather ... the popular houseplant Zamioculcas zamiifolia has many names. This attractive plant comes from East Africa and belongs to the arum family. Like almost all members of this widespread plant family, the Zamioculcas is very prolific, so that cut leaves and shoots quickly form new roots.
Only use healthy mother plants for reproduction
However, you should not take cuttings of sick or sickly mother plants for propagation, because even these will not be healthy - after all, the vegetative propagation is a kind of creation of clones: The obtained offshoots have exactly the same characteristics as the mother plant.
Insert leaf cuttings in growing substrate
The Zamioculcas is usually propagated by leaf cuttings. For rooting this procedure has proven itself:
Now it has to be patient, because until the new plant has taken root can take up to 12 months.
Rooted cuttings with several leaves
In addition to single leaves, you can also use whole petioles with multiple leaves as cuttings. These should, however, be rooted in the water, in contrast to the leaf cuttings.
After a few months, small tubers develop, from which the roots finally spring. Now you can plant the Zamioculcas in normal soil, however you will have to wait for the first right shoot for a while yet.
Tips
If the leaf cuttings are to rooted faster, you should water them with tap water instead of tap water or rain water.