Since we are talking about so many different veg being propagated from plant matter rather than seeds...I have my recent story to share.
While ago I mentioned on other post my Anatolian tree cabbage plant that haven't flowered and it was coming to its 3 summer season...plant that I foolishly dug out during bed clear out and before I got my brain into gear...
I took some cuttings from other plants that were planted last year and which already had started flowering ..foraged some non-flowering side shoots from low down on the plants.
Because I had that one, already having 'perennial habit'..I missed opportunity to propagated from it..so I headed for the rubbish pile where it have been drying out for couple of weeks....drying out so it can be eventually burned..and yes, it was limp and VERY dead looking....BUT! Couple of branches were buried under weeds..and although they were very shrivelled, there was still hint of green showing through the growing point on the top...rest of the leaves were truly had it.
I chopped those few limbs off..cut dead leaves off and dropped the whole lot in water barrel until next day. Next day they had alredy plumped up a little..so I cut off more the long stems to get more 'fresher' tissue contact with water >another day in barrel.
I carried on like this 4 days..each time chopping more of length off. After all I reduced original 2 ft stems down to 6"...and the final cuttings looked like they were 'alive'
So here we are....2 survived and they've been potted up for rooting and I suspect they have already started doing so...now time will tell if the stress from being nearly dead will bring their flowering instinct on
The two on front are the survivors and some of the smaller ones on left from the flowering ones...
