How to divide japanese variegated rhapis

[happypalms]

I have been asked on palm talk how do you divide Japanese rhapis it’s very easy to do just like any other green rhapis just simply select the one you wish to remove and gently tease them apart and simply repot them I did two two varieties one is subtilis the other one nannishiki it’s not rocket science on3 trick is not baby them to much just treat them to the best of your growing abilities.

[Harry’s Palms]

Free palms! Harry

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Free palms! Harry

Yes free palms and they are not cheap to buy so even better a bargain for initial outlay.

Richard

[Harry’s Palms]

So if I want a variegated Rhapis I just have to a donor somewhere! 😂Harry

[Kim]

Looks easy while they are small. 

I have one in a big ceramic pot. It's been in one pot or another for a good 10+ years. I think I'm going to need something long and sharp to separate anything from the dense cluster. I knew this would happen, but hey, I've enjoyed it this way for 10+ years... 

Also one or two of the stalks are not variegated. I suppose I should quietly 'eliminate' them?

 

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, Kim said:

Looks easy while they are small. 

I have one in a big ceramic pot. It's been in one pot or another for a good 10+ years. I think I'm going to need something long and sharp to separate anything from the dense cluster. I knew this would happen, but hey, I've enjoyed it this way for 10+ years... 

Also one or two of the stalks are not variegated. I suppose I should quietly 'eliminate' them?

 

They are easy when small yes. I use a reciprocating saw for the ones in the ground a good sharp knife is not going to do the job in a mass of roots. A good sharp saw will. And yes remove the green ones to keep them producing variegated pups. Iam nowhere near as fussy as the Japanese using special pots and pruning shears like they do.

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

So if I want a variegated Rhapis I just have to a donor somewhere! 😂Harry

If you find one definitely go for it just ask permission first.

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

4 hours ago, happypalms said:

If you find one definitely go for it just ask permission first.

Richard 

Yes , of course. I have found that cuttings of various plants make good friends . I have shared and traded with others. It makes sense these can be divided just as easily as their non variegated relatives. I was at a fellow palmy guy’s house on the other side of the hill and he gave me some cuttings of ground orchids (he has quite a few) and he told me take as much as I want , you don’t have to ask. I still can’t bring myself to take without asking first. I have a lot of tillandsia , like a whole bamboo wall full and it looks so cool , especially when they flower . They make a nice parting gift for visitors to my garden . I started with a chunk that my mentor gave me when I visited his palm garden . I have laced Spanish Moss around the Tilly’s and added new varieties . Like the Rhapis palm , it’s the gift that keeps on giving! Harry

[Patrick]

For some odd reason this has got me thinking of the movie Highlander, only the opposite way...

[tim_brissy_13]

22 minutes ago, Patrick said:

For some odd reason this has got me thinking of the movie Highlander, only the opposite way...

There shall be…many!

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, Patrick said:

For some odd reason this has got me thinking of the movie Highlander, only the opposite way...

There can only be one ☝️ 

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , of course. I have found that cuttings of various plants make good friends . I have shared and traded with others. It makes sense these can be divided just as easily as their non variegated relatives. I was at a fellow palmy guy’s house on the other side of the hill and he gave me some cuttings of ground orchids (he has quite a few) and he told me take as much as I want , you don’t have to ask. I still can’t bring myself to take without asking first. I have a lot of tillandsia , like a whole bamboo wall full and it looks so cool , especially when they flower . They make a nice parting gift for visitors to my garden . I started with a chunk that my mentor gave me when I visited his palm garden . I have laced Spanish Moss around the Tilly’s and added new varieties . Like the Rhapis palm , it’s the gift that keeps on giving! Harry

The best plants in my garden are the ones that have been gifted they always have a story. You remember the person you got it from. Every time you see it and remember the gift from a fellow gardener who shares the same passion as yourself. That person pretty well much wants to share there love of plants with you. Anyone who visits my garden gets plants given to them from me. Tillandsias are great fun along with bromeliads I inherited a huge collection of my father gardening with those broms gives me such joy. I have a chambeyronia I know in a garden in town I collect the seeds  from she said just take them if iam  not home but I can’t just take them I always ask first plus you get to meet great people the lady is an old hippie who loves life i love talking to her.

Richard