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My first dypsis lutescens sucker

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By Rickybobby
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Didn’t think it would happen so young just under 2 years old. Looks like first sucker one thing I didn’t know was that the sucker comes up through the existing crown? So interesting 

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Most originate from the adventitious root zone but they can also start much higher up off the ground and appear to be branches. Often the "branch" seems to be mutated somewhat like a witches broom in dicots. I have a couple experiments where I'm trying to propagate D. lutescens with the "branching" trait by vegetative propagation and by seed production. I just think it would be kinda cool to be able to grow branching ones as opposed to just hoping to find random ones with the trait. The problem with just finding branching ones is that they're usually already part of a large clump so it's not easy to isolate the one stem with the trait. Pretty cool that you may have an above ground level "branching" one that's not part of a clump. There's also some that don't sucker and remain a single stem. IIRC @PalmatierMeg has or had a single.

I have a batch of seedlings now that were from seed of a D.lutescens that has several suckers from just above ground level up to 5'.   I cut off all the flowers of nearby D. lutescens allowing only the one stem to produce flowers & then seed for a season in the hopes that I might get seed with the "branching" trait.  Then I germinated all the seed from that batch and potted them individually and have kept them together, separate from the rest of the D. lutescens I have in pots (thousands) while I wait to see if they have the above ground suckering trait.   I'm also experimenting with trying to get the above ground level suckers to root on a mature plant.  If successful the new plant should have the branching trait, but getting monocots to root by layering etc. is difficult compared with other types of plants.

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Thanks for the info yeah I have a bunch of these palms this one has a large crown the others haven’t suckered yet but it is neat to see the sucker is growing fast very fast. Even though they are a dime in the states and carribean up here it’s pretty rare 

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