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[Caium]

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.

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[plantlight]

Have you ever had success rooting mimosa cuttings? 

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[Frog Pajamas]

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

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[Caium]

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.
 

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[nobody]

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

nobody

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[BubbleCat]

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

[Bach]

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..

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[Caium]

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.

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[plantlight]

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

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