Re: VFT's dying leaf is budding
Rob Brisler (brislerr@ozemail.com.au)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 01:01:15 +1000 (EST)
At 04:15 PM 12/08/96 -0700, >Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>On 9 Aug 96 at 16:20, Massimo Bernieri wrote:
>
>> I have noted that one dying leaf of my VFT is budding.
>> It's normal? And then, how can I to stimulate the budding?
>> Is it possible a new little plant is growning from the old leaf?
>
>Where is it 'budding' from? I've not come across this, but it
>*should* be possible, because some books say that you can grow them
>from leaf cuttings, or even flower-stem cuttings. I don't know how
>to encourage it.
>
>--
VFT's are candidates for vegetative apopomixis (I'm sure I've spelt that
wrong!) which means that they can, given the right conditions produce
plantlets from either leaves or flowers. I have had the odd VFTs which have
done either of these things (I have never had a plant do both) on once-off
occasions. The plantlets so produced grew into normal VFTs when potted up.
How to stimulate this? I have no idea.
Regards,
Rob Brisler