Posted by Tom Broome on 8/14/2005, 12:01 am, in reply to "FEMALE SAGO" --Previous Message--
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: I HAVE 2 SAGO,GROWING SIDE BY SIDE.
: ONE IS A MALE AND ONE IS FEMALE. THE
: MALE SEED POD has fallen to the
: side but is still growing. the
: female pod is huge and i am
: wondering if i should " twist
: " it out or let it grow..i
: believe that it take several months
: to drop off by it self. there
: doesn't appear to be any new frons
: on the female but the male has
: " split " in to two heads.
: should i "twist " it
: out or let it grow ?
:
The male cone can be cleanly cut off and you should get new leaves soon if you fertilizer it now. The female cone could have been pollinated, and it might not have. Pollen would have had to be available at the same time (5 day interval) that the female opened up to be receptive. You have to decide if you want seeds or not. If you have good seeds, you will not get new leaves until next spring. If you don't want seeds, you can cleanly cut off the cone material, fertilizer the plant, and you should get new leaves in the next month or two. You use the word 'twist', I know you used that for lack of a better word, but you need to be very careful if you want to remove the female material because you can easily outright kill your plant if the material gets roughly ripped away from where it is sitting. The female 'cone' is actually a cluster of sporaphylls. These are the things that look like little furry hands. There are probably 50 of those making up what looks like a basket. Each one is attached to the top of the plant, also called the apex. Cut the sporaphyll off cleanly without damaging the apex. Start from the outside and work in, one at a time until they are all gone. No ripping, tearing, or twisting. Claen cutting with a sharp tool. Its not really hard, but just be careful and you can get more leaves this year, if that is what is important.
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