Posted by rebecca on 5/16/2008, 1:58 pm, in reply to "Re: Sago roots rotted"
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Thanks, Tom! I was hoping you'd say they had a chance of survival. I'm heading to your website right now. :)
Have a great weekend!
Rebecca
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: Hi, Tom,
:
: What a great forum, I'm very glad I
: found it! Your Sago knowledge and
: advice is a tremendous help,
: especially to those of us who are
: new to trying Cycads (and I stress
: the word "trying.")
:
: Here's the problem I'm having:
:
: I had my once-healthy Sagos potted
: in too heavy of a soil mixture, and
: the roots are rotted from being too
: wet. If I cut the roots off
: completely and pot each bulb in
: lighter soil (or perlite), would it
: eventually grow new roots? I was
: thinking of taking a little bit of
: the flesh(?) off the bottom of the
: bulb, dusting it with fungicide and
: then rooting powder before potting.
: The bulbs themselves feel firm, not
: soft, so I'm hoping I can still save
: these guys.
:
: Thanks for your help!
: rebecca
:
: First of all, thanks for the
: compliments. I get so many people
: (not everyone though) asking me
: questions in this forum and in
: private e-mails and once I answer
: their questions, I never hear
: anything from them again and not
: even a thank you. You made my day
: today.
: You can make the plants come back
: no problem. What you want to do is
: remove most if not all the leaves on
: the plant because those leaves pull
: energy and mopisture out of the stem
: when there are no roots to pump
: anything back up into the plant.
: When the plant is going good again,
: it will put out new leaves when it
: is ready. You want to cut back the
: roots until there is good looking
: materail and not rotted, nasty
: looking material. I will stop there
: and for really good details, I will
: send you to the place where I have
: my articles. Go to my website, that
: is linked in the header. Go to the
: article section and then the most
: asked questions article. You will
: see the details on doing offsets. I
: would treat these like offsets, but
: you don't have to carve up the whole
: stem, all you are doing is starting
: new roots, but the basic procedure
: would be the same. If you had some
: rot that got into the stem, then I
: would say to also read the article
: "never throw away a cycad"
: for extra insight.
:
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