Posted by Tom Broome on 10/9/2005, 10:44 pm, in reply to "Re: cutting up zamias?" --Previous Message--
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: : Tom,
: thanks for answering all my
: questions. i need to clarify a few
: things.
:
: the cardboard palm that i got has
: two crowns in a large pot, so i plan
: on separating those, not cutting
: them up, poor wording on my part. it
: also looks like there may be a third
: plant between the two with a crown
: below the surface. it needs
: repotting as it is bending the
: plastic and is in a pretty large
: pot. the crowns are about the size
: of a softball, maybe a little
: bigger. are there easy ways to
: propagate these without waiting on
: seeds or pups, etc. i read your
: articles already and i think it said
: that zamias are easy to do.
:
: As for the coontie, it turns out
: what i thought were small cardboards
: planted in tallahassee seem to be
: coonties instead. may even be
: juvenile palatka giants. so this is
: what i will be planting in the yard
: instead. the one (coontie) i got is
: in a large pot, also needs repotting
: or dividing or something b/c its
: bending the plastic pot. there are
: several plants in the pot, and i
: counted 7 cones. 4 in a group and
: the others spread around the pot.
: figure i can get 3 or 4 plants
: easily. i'm told it will die back in
: the winter and resprout. we have
: what appear to the palatka giant
: adults growing in my town that
: survive the winter. anyway, any
: pointers about separating these?
: will they have distinct crowns when
: i do it?
:
: as for what i am calling the scale,
: its white, small, and spiderwebbish
: but concentrated on the underside of
: the furfuraceae. this is what i had
: on the revoluta last summer that i
: cut back and was planning on hacking
: up. i hope its not the scale but the
: cold wont get rid of whatever it is
: b/c i have to bring the cardboard
: palm in this winter..
:
: i'm planning on planting the coontie
: in yard. it wont spread far or fast
: will it?
:
: thanks for your time, b
:
:
Seperating multiple plants in a pot is fairly easy, just try not to rip the roots too bad and if they get really damaged, you might want to treat the wounds, or at least keep from watering too much to avoid rot. You just need to make sure what your really dealing with. These zamias will all produce multiple headed plants, so you need to make sure that your furfuracea is truly multiple plants in the same pot and not a multiple headed plant. Below the ground somewhere will be where the heads come together, or they will show the gap between the individual plants.
Mealy bugs are easy to kill. Just about any direct contact spray will take care of them, like Malathion, or Diazinon. Any systemic will work too. For that matter, you can mix up a few teaspoons of alcohol in a quart of water and that mix will kill mealy bugs. Just spray in between everything real well.
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