Stem cuttings from Chamaedorea Seifrizii

[Björn]

Hello everyone,

I recently saw a clip on YouTube in which someone took stem cuttings of Chamaedorea seifrizii. The stem was cut into small pieces, which included at least two nodes. There were no fronds left on the stem. Then the stem piece was placed completely in soil and supposedly after 15 days roots and a shoot could be seen.

As I had to remove a stem from my Seifrizii yesterday due to the enormous growth in height (the ceiling was in the way), I thought I'd give it a try and cut the stem into pieces and put them in soil.

Has anyone here ever had experience with stem cuttings of this species? Apart from the YouTube video, there is surprisingly little information on the internet. I was also wondering whether bamboo palm had been confused with real bamboo... (although in the video, it's definitely a Seifrizii)

I would be very happy to hear about your experiences!

Kind regards
Björn 

PS: Here is the URL to the youtube clip: 

 

[Darold Petty]

I have successfully air layered a tall Chamaedorea metallica, to a shorter size. However I doubt this video for two reasons, if there were actual apical meristem tissue at each leaf node then why would not secondary growth points arise, especially with the support of the full root system ? 

Also, 70 days is far too short a time period to produce the growth of the plant shown at the end of this video.  I say  false.