[RANDEL]

yup. plant cloner here. wife gets on my case about it. sez i always divide too soon. also start lots of cuttings. when i get settled i hope to set up a little lab to clone orchid plants--real tissue culture. also wanna do some grafting of fruit-trees, another sort of cloning i guess. ever try scooping or scoring tulips, etc? it's great--u get 5-10 little bulbs from every big bulb. also scaling lillies--each scale from the lily bulb gives u one to three tiny little bulbs.

heck i'm so far gone that yesterday i was looking at some stored turnips. where the greens start to sprout, they get a small bulb-like thingie. now if i planted those..... but cloning turnips Is a bit much, no?

 

[RANDEL]

<< yea cloning a turnip is a bit much but if ya havent got any seeds and you have a few turnips.... >>

lol.

i remembered another plant i cloned. leeks. if u leave em in the ground over winter they grow offsets. since leeks are so slow i thought the offsets would be cool. i planted a pretty good bed of 'em. unfortunately they went to seed very small. that was in a hot dry garden, tho. i'll try it again if i get a chance.

also, i plan to try buying a few raspberry plants (all i can afford) and taking root cuttings. should get quite a few plants from a single plant. i have no qualms about taking a perfectly good plant and cutting it up if i stand a chance of getting 20 or 30 little plants from it.