Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 92, Here comes Spring!, 1 by homer1958

homer1958 wrote:
prita,

I am no expert, however; I would repot the small one to the right in the picture. I would dig up the large plant and cut off just above the offset that is growing at the bottom of the tuber. That gives you 2-plants.

Next cut off the top of the main tuber about 3 to 3-1/2'' down; keep top 3/4'' of tuber above the soil line when repotting; there is your 3rd plant. You will have some tuber left over; if it is more than 6'' cut in half and place the two pieces vertically at the soils surface in a new sterile pot. Soil ammendment percentages should be about 60% potting mix and 40% med coarse perlite for new starts. This picture shows the pieces of an A. Calidora That I repotted a couple of months ago. the key is not to much water to rot the piece of tuber and to place in the smallest pot possible until; I would say, one entire new leaf.