carolo43
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: Dumb Cane has a seed pod |
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Anyone know what to do with this? Cut if off or leave it.
I got my plant from Home Depot a couple months ago and it had taken a beaten. Didn't do well coming home in my cold car, either. Several leaves were bent, broken and a mess so I just started cutting them off. I have gotten at least a dozen new leaves in this short time and now this pod.
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eileen
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'd leave it alone and gather the seeds from it when they are ready. You can always give them away if you don't want to keep them for yourself.
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kuntrygal
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Whatever you do with it, just know that the plant is poisonous! 
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carolo43
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I have read it's poisonous and mostly that pod. So, does this mean I can grow new plants from this seed pod? I will give it a go and see what happens.
Thanks
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carolo43
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Cut pod off and already I have another to take it's place.
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toni
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Be sure to leave the pod on the plant long enough for the seeds to ripen otherwise they will not germinate.
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carolo43
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Whooops.
What do you mean by germinate? The seeds can be planted for new plants?
I've read a new stem will grow under the pod but I see no signs of that happening yet.
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toni
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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I have done some reading up on your plant, that isn't a seed pod it is the flower. Next time it forms one of those don't cut it off, just leave it to bloom and die off.
Evidently the plant doesn't viable produce seed so the only propagation techniques are by stem cutting or air layering.
Germination is the process of a seed sprouting roots and creating a new plant.
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carolo43
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Toni. Appreciate your response.
And one day later:
Another flower, yet again. Three in 2 weeks.
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