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Article: Air-layering? (how to transplant house plants)
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- Article date:
- December 1, 1984
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Air-layering?
Like puppies and kittens, many house plants can grow up faster than seems possible. But unlike pets, you can cut a house plant back down to size, and get an extra plant in the bargain. How? By using a process called air-layering, demonstrated here by Olympia gardener Helmut Bauer.
It will work with almost any vining or tree-shaped house plant. It's almost foolproof with philodendrons (including splitleaf types), ornamental figs, rubber plants, and dieffenbachia. You can even use it on parlor palm (Chameadorea elegans, often sold as Neanthe bella).
You can start the air-layering process any time from now through spring.
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