Well, I'm headed home.... (they let me out of my metal box for a bit) Stuck at the airport... lil bit of free time and a few heinekens in the blood stream.... instead of annoying the locals with my insane prattle I guess I'll throw a few caapi pictures up.
Anyway here is a basic pictoral of caapi rooting.
A fella named Pan gave me a lil baby caapi plant once, I stuck it in a pot and rooted it, got it established over the next 2 years:
After this time I decided to take cuttings. This momma plant had 60ft of usable vine so I wanted to get the maximum amount of cuttings. I devised a single node rooting system. Instead of using a full node for roots and one for leaves I would take just one node and lay it sideways on the soil, thus half would root and half would sprout. seemed like a good idea. Would produce at least twice as many usable plants.
that worked out well!
Tip cuttings tend to fall over and sometimes die on you... woody sections are easiest obviously. I took my woody shrub know-how and remembered we used to "slice" with a razor blade the hard woody parts to promote rooting. I don't carry a knife so I chewed the ends lightly to break the surface.... three days later, rootbuds:
once rooted well in a small area
I'd transfer them to 1 quart pots where they could spend up to a year. It is always better to keep your tropical plants in too tight of a pot and water them often. The real killer here is overly wet soil as it pushed the oxygen out.
slip inside this house,
Ringworm
Anyway here is a basic pictoral of caapi rooting.
A fella named Pan gave me a lil baby caapi plant once, I stuck it in a pot and rooted it, got it established over the next 2 years:
After this time I decided to take cuttings. This momma plant had 60ft of usable vine so I wanted to get the maximum amount of cuttings. I devised a single node rooting system. Instead of using a full node for roots and one for leaves I would take just one node and lay it sideways on the soil, thus half would root and half would sprout. seemed like a good idea. Would produce at least twice as many usable plants.
that worked out well!
Tip cuttings tend to fall over and sometimes die on you... woody sections are easiest obviously. I took my woody shrub know-how and remembered we used to "slice" with a razor blade the hard woody parts to promote rooting. I don't carry a knife so I chewed the ends lightly to break the surface.... three days later, rootbuds:
once rooted well in a small area
I'd transfer them to 1 quart pots where they could spend up to a year. It is always better to keep your tropical plants in too tight of a pot and water them often. The real killer here is overly wet soil as it pushed the oxygen out.
slip inside this house,
Ringworm