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Mahalo, thanks John.
And @Marlingardener this is the only plant that Mom hasn't killed!
I have always loved Dracaena. In high school I was enrolled in FFA. I liked ornamental horticulture. I grew all kinds of plants from cutting. They had a big mist house.
Dracaena was one of the easiest to root. You could cut 2 inch long pieces of the stem, lay them on their side, pushed down a little in vermiculite and they would root within 2 weeks.
No foliage required. Just push down and keep moist.
Beautiful resilient plant for sure.
 
I had a friend years ago that used to propagate those plants that way - I didn't remember them until you mentioned that method - laying the 2" pieces of stalks flat on the soil - @Roll_Bones! I never grew anything not edible, but she did, and that was the strangest way of rooting something I had ever seen. She did it to trade those at a couple of nurseries back then, for other plants, or items.
 
Oh, I think there is some propagation in the plant's future! I don't know what I'll do with another one, but I'll figure it out.
Again, Roll_Bones, thank you!
The hardest thing will be to decide to prune the plant. You must cut off a crown to get some stalk. But wherever you cut, you will get at least 2 new crowns.
Back home it was warm year round and there was little thought put into pruning. It would recover quickly. But as a house plant its totally different.
I had a friend years ago that used to propagate those plants that way - I didn't remember them until you mentioned that method - laying the 2" pieces of stalks flat on the soil - @Roll_Bones! I never grew anything not edible, but she did, and that was the strangest way of rooting something I had ever seen. She did it to trade those at a couple of nurseries back then, for other plants, or items.
One 2" piece of stalk may produce up to 5 baby crowns. Laying them sideways gives you a better fuller plant quicker. But you can stand up your cutting as well.
 
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