Posted by Tom Broome on 12/11/2007, 9:36 pm, in reply to "Faster Seedling growth"
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: I have a bed of 6 month old panzhia
: seeds growing outside, most with
: their first and a few with second
: leaves. It's winter right now, so
: they are dormant. In the spring I
: plan on maxing out the nitrogen
: (with minors) and stimulating them
: to grow as much as possible. After
: reading your article on leaf cutting
: for growth stimulation, I am
: wondering if your leaf pruning idea
: would work on seedlings?, and
: further, with a one or two leaf
: seedling, would you cut all the
: leaves?, or just half? (I suppose a
: one leaf seedling can still be cut
: 50%). And then there's the question
: of how often to cut, and how long to
: allow the plants to 'recharge'(time
: spent with new leaf) before pruning
: them again.
:
If you read the article again, you will see that I killed seedlings by doing this. The plant is stressed out if you cut the leaves off and the only way cycads can come back easily is if it has a high starch content to rely on until new leaves are produced. Seedlings don't have very much starch in them so I would not do this on any small cycads. In fact, I don't recommend doing this on cycads in general, but what HAS worked well is doing it to plants with multiple stems, and/or offsets and only removing leaves from the offsets and keeping the leaves on the main stem intact.
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