Avi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: Corn Plant |
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Well, I have a nice corn plant(Dracaena fragrans 'Massangeana') which showed very nice growth after I placed it but now it seems to constantly generate flowers rather than new vegetative growth. The flowers are interesting...I guess...but I'm more interested in new leaf growth. Is there something that I can do to encourage leaf growth and end the flowering. Once a head of leaves sends out a flower, it stops growing leaves and this is part of the problem. Thanks.
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Wrennie
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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I would think if you pinch off the flower buds it would start the leaf growth cycle again.
{{{whoa! Just as I answered I see you're in Westchester. I grew up in Westchester}}}
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Avi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well...Pinching off the flowers, even before they open, doesn't seem to do the trick. And, once a flower "stalk" had grown from the center, no new leaves generate from there whether the flower stalk is cut off before opening up or if the flower is permitted to run its course and die. So, I think that there's something else that must be what I need to do.
Funny, wrennie...I'm in Westchester but I always spent a few weeks in the Catskills every summer when I was a kid.
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Avi ~ I have much the same "problem" with my plant.
I don't know if there may be another, preferable answer for you,
but what I have decided to do, is to lop off the entire top of my plant, 
so that it will branch out and send up several totally new growth points.
It will mean a short term "ugly bare stick" phase, 
but I think it will be a better plant in the long run.
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Avi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, zuzu, that seems pretty drastic...right now, anyway. The plant looks so good that I hope there's another measure that can be taken before I would resort to that. Can you tell me what kind of conditions your corn plant is in? Mine's a bright corner of the house where there are two nice-sized windows making up the corner, so the plant gets a good deal of light.
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Avi wrote: | | Wow, zuzu, that seems pretty drastic...right now, anyway. |
Drastic??  Moi?
 Yeah, I think you're probably right to let your plant just do it's thing, Avi.
Mine isn't looking all that lovely just now, and is in need of a stern lesson!
Mu-a-haha  "Off with her head!"
I'd guess that your plant will resume it's normal growth habits, in time.
Perhaps an abundance of light or fertilizer has caused this response?
I really do think that was the case here. 
My plant spent the summer outside, 
and hence, got more of both than it ever would have, had I left it indoors.
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Avi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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I think that's the case here...it might very well be getting a bit too much light in its spot
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