Hello Friends!
Welcome back!
Yesterday I discussed about Dracaena Species and general care and tips on these plants.
Today am gonna demonstrate you 3 different methods used in propagating or rooting the
cuttings of Dracaena Marginata plant with rooting result of tip cuttings at the end
of this video.
Please watch the entire video and Stay Tuned� Welcome back!
You can see the mother plant from which I took out the cuttings, as usual from my hospital
garden.
There were actually two of these trees, one was pruned very badly sometime back.
I have shown you these in yesterdays video.
Also to remind you, the other names of this plant are Rainbow plant, Ribbon Plant, Madagascar
Dragon, or simply the Dragon Tree.
Well, now you can have a look at these tall cuttings I got from the mother plant.
Now I Have lot of resources to demonstrate 3 different approaches to propagate Dracaena
Marginata.
Now I will prepare these cuttings by removing the leaves from the meristem, leaving the
top ones.
And Make different cuttings.
The cuttings are similar to any of the cuttings you make for propagation and can be longer
or shorter to 6 � 8 inches or any size.
Now Please watch these clips in fast forward mode till I come back to the propagation methods
and Stay tuned� Now coming back!
The unique method to propagate Dracaena Marginata is from STUB CUTTINGS.
Make small cuttings like 1 to 2 inches incuding one or two nodes as shown here.
Simply plant them in soil and slightly cover them with soil.
You can also apply some rooting hormone at the ends.
Lets wait and watch for this result, because I am using this method for the first time.
The second method is rooting in water � take water bottles like these and do not fill more
that 1/3 of water in these bottles.
Then simply drop the cuttings into these.
The Third method is the usual method what we use regularly.
That�s planting in soil.
Usually these Dracaena are grown as a bunch of plants as seen in the mother plant.
Hence you can plant more than one in a single plant close to each other like this.
So that when it grows, it becomes more bushy.
After doing this keep everything undisturbed for few days.
You can change the water in the bottles once in 5 days to avoid bacterial and fungal growth.
Well, Now I will show you some tip cuttings done about 2 months ago for these two dracaena
plants.
I will also remove these and show you the new roots that developed and repot these into
larger pots.
Watch these clips ahead and
See you in next video, bye bye!