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I have had this "NIght Blooming Cereus" for several years now.. It has NEVER bloomed!
I have posted for advice before. I keep it in the house for the Winter and keep it outside in filtered light all Summer. It has grown and grown! Mostly, these long stems (now about 4' high) that have all kinds of leaves coming out of them. BUT---this is NOT about it blooming...
In the Spring--as I was moving all my plants outside--a section of the "leaves" broke off. I trimmed it and potted it up in a 4" clay pot and have had it inside by a window all summer. I KNOW it has rooted...as I tug on it...These things root so easily!
Today--I was tying it up the tall stems to some 4' bamboo stakes to hold the thing together, as I will have to bring it in again--soon--and another section broke off. Same as in the Spring.
My question is this:
HOW should this broken-off section be trimmed, and where, so I can have as many sections to root as possible???? Should I just plant the WHOLE thing? Kind of big for that...
Those side-leaves...with the "veins" connecting it to the bigger leaf---can they be separated and rooted individually? I realize--it would be smaller rootings than if I did the WHOLE thing---but I also know that each one of them WILL root.
If I wanted to cut them up in separate pieces to root----WHERE would I cut them??? Need advice!
Here is the broken off section as of today:
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