One Response to “Plant Propagation for Golden Pothos and Parlor Palm”

1. Jamie Jamison Adams Says:
   May 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 am

   Laura,

   Let's start with the Golden pothos. Propagation is done through stem cuttings. Cut the stem of the golden pothos about an inch to two inches below a knuckle or node at a 45 degree angle – sometime there will already be small roots at the knuckle. Dip the cut into rooting hormone and place in moist soil. keep the soil moist but not soggy until it roots. Then you can care for it the same way you care for the mother plant.

   As for the Parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegans), most plams are progated trhough seed only. However, the Chamaedorea genius has several palms that can be vegetatively reporduced. You will have to air-layer the plam using the conspicuous aeial roots at the stem nodes. Applying a swath of moist sphagnum peat moss around one to several nodes and wrapping the area in aluminum foil. Roots will grow in the moss and when suffiicent roots have form you can cut the stem from the parent plant and pot it.