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Gardening Area => Plant Propagation => Topic started by: Caium on January 19, 2016, 02:04:22 PM

Title: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: Caium on January 19, 2016, 02:04:22 PM

Hello people, found this beautiful on wild area roadside and worth a propagation.
The thornless variation, side by side with the sister with thorns, same age of about a year probably, the very same plant.
Got a tip for rooting, sometime I'll go there to get more for better chances, or maybe even rescue the whole plant (wont last much on roadsides).
Happy to meet you all again.

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: plantlight on January 19, 2016, 02:30:39 PM

Have you ever had success rooting mimosa cuttings? 

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: Frog Pajamas on January 19, 2016, 03:05:29 PM

Beautiful! Greentoe and I both ended up with thornless hostilis from the seeds you sent before b

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: Caium on January 19, 2016, 03:34:27 PM

I didn't try with cuttings before, as I had only propagated with seeds.
But in this case it is about a recessive gene or something, that wont propagate with seeds, maybe unless polinated by other thornless plant.
So I'll have to try it now, if I can grow a few individuals to polinate among them, so seeds would come out with high probability for thornless sprouts.
Thats great froggy, those seeds were from around this very special spot.
 ;)

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: nobody on January 19, 2016, 04:16:36 PM

I have had a lot of success with air layering, usually takes 2 or 3 weeks.

nobody

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: BubbleCat on January 19, 2016, 11:25:13 PM

just tied wet material on or did you scar it before doin so ?

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: Bach on July 12, 2016, 11:01:07 PM

Typically for an air layer you split the stem and then place a toothpick or similar small peice of wood in the split, then apply rooting hormone and cover with moist rooting substrate such as sphagnum.

You still around odara? I'm wondering what that rooting tip is that you mentioned.

Sorry for the necropost, but thornless Mimosas are worth pursuing..

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: Caium on August 13, 2016, 02:18:55 AM

So here it is! I could not find this topic, then created a new one, but any of the ADM can erase that double topic please, for consistency.
Yeahh I consider taking the whole plant, I really hope it is still there, been checking on it once a month since I took those pictures, but the last few months I didnt.
The propagation sticks didn't survive, so its the only way.
Also hope it is productive by now, a good chance to take some seeds with any % of that genetic.

Title: Re: Thornless Mimosa Tenuiflora Propagation
Post by: plantlight on August 13, 2016, 02:26:51 AM

That's an excellent idea to try to reproduce the inermis through seeds and  crossbreeding.   :)