Southside Plants Keiki Cloning Paste - Natural Miracle Growth & Food Formula for Orchid Plants Hormones & Vitamins - Includes Instruction Booklet | 0.25oz

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After this, place the keiki on the moist medium, gently pushing the roots deeper in. And that’s it, you’re done. From here on, keep an eye on the medium – it must stay slightly moist at all times. This is a delicate time for the keiki. Keep it in daylight, but always make sure it’s out of reach of heat. And remember to give it mild fertilizer. HOW TO MAKE A KEIKI WITHOUT KEIKI PASTE You’ve most likely read that pruning a pothos will make it bushier (read our complete guide to making pothos bushier here). Keiki paste is very effective on younger plants with supple stems, like this baby green and cream Ficus Elastica Variegata from World’s End Nursery in West London , one of my favourite garden centers. Right now, the plant has only three mature leaves - the perfect experimental subject. I’m going to use Keiki paste to encourage new buds that will develop fully in spring. I’m assuming you googled how to propagate orchids through offsets because you’re trying to figure out how to get your orchid to propagate. The simplest way to propagate your orchid is by using a hormone paste. By applying keiki paste to either a phalaenopsis or dendrobium orchid, chances are your orchid will produce either an offset (keiki) or more flowers. They are native to China, India, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Direct sunlight and intense heat are very harmful for orchids at this time. The optimum temperature is around 25 ° C. Ideally, the flower should be placed in the florarium, which allows you to create an optimal microclimate. The primary ingredient in Keiki paste, Benzylaminopurine ¹, is a synthetic cytokinin promoting cell division and is also used in tissue culture during the multiplication stage. Look for nodes or aerial roots on the orchid plant where you want to encourage keiki growth. Nodes are small bumps along the stem where new growth can occur.Used on epiphytic (air plant) orchids like Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium, and Neofinetias, this synthetic hormone has the potential to trigger the growth of a baby orchid complete with shoots and roots—a rare but exciting event for any avid grower. Repeat the pruning process every spring, taking cuttings from all of the vines. Remember to regularly water and fertilize the plant, and don’t change its location. Keiki (KAY-key), Hawaiian for “baby” is the term for a new plantlet growing on a mother orchid. These plantlets can grow naturally and they can be encouraged by using plant hormones. Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium orchids are especially prone to producing keikis. Let’s talk about what happens if your orchid has produced a keiki on its own, and how to encourage keikis using Keiki Power Pro. Using hormones doesn’t always result keikis, sometimes the orchid will produce flowers rather than a keiki–and that’s okay too. In most of the territory of Russia, it is problematic to ensure sufficient daylight hours in early spring. Therefore, for supplementary lighting, special phytolamps are used, located at a distance of 30-50 cm above the flower. Common fluorescent, energy-saving and incandescent bulbs burn leaves with an unnatural purple or inky purple hue.

You can use Keiki paste on any pothos variety, especially on slow-growing cultivars, such as Manjula or N’Joy, and on species of Scindapsus ( Satin Pothos). 2.) Prune Regularly Wait until the Keiki has its own roots with a length between 1-3” or 2.6- 7.6cm long before removing it. What if I could produce another growth point that I could later separate and produce another Gloriosum plant with? The idea is to apply the paste on the nodes of plants, such as orchids, to produce clones of the mother plant. These clones are called Keikis in the case of orchids.If you let the keiki to be attached to the mother plant for a longer time, the pros for this are; the keiki will grow faster this way. The cons; it’s very energy-consuming for the mother plant to feed an extra ‘mouth’. So ultimately it’s a personal preference, there’s no right or wrong. HOW TO SEPARATE A KEIKI FROM THE MOTHER PLANT Once the plant is divided, it can be easily repotted. It’s important to remove any dead roots or leaves. You should also remove old pseudobulbs. The new, smaller plants should be cared for in the same way that the old orchid was. The best bit? These are just the experiments I have done so far – there are hundreds of potential applications. On some things it works while on some things it doesn’t, but that is all part of the fun. It’s a perfect project if you are up for playing mad scientist this weekend in your living room.