Easiest way growing and propagation of queen of the night or epiphyllum oxypetalum from cuttings. Queen of the night is a beautiful perennial flowering cactus plant, in the family Cactaceae. It rarely blooms only at night and commonly called epiphyllum oxypetalum, princess of the night, night blooming cereus, dutchman's pipe cactus, brahma kamal etc. Queen of the night plants are mainly propagate from stem cuttings and best cuttings growing season is spring. In this video I'm going to show you - how to propagate queen of the night or epiphyllum oxypetalum from cuttings.
Queen of the night or epiphyllum oxypetalum propagation step:
1) First of all take a stem cutting from the main plant, before planting the stem cutting keep it in shaded place 2 to 3 days for callus.
2) Take a well drain pot and fill it with cocopeat.
3) After 3 days, plant cutting into the cocopeat.
4) Finally sprinkle little bit of water and keep it in a partial sunlight place for a few days.
5) After 30 days cutting look like this. Look at this root development, roots are very well developed with in 30 days. Now we transplant into the bigger pot for better growth.
6) Making potting mix for queen of the night, the ratio of the potting mix is 40% cocopeat, 20% small gravels, 20% vermicompost and 20% perlite. Mix it well.
7) Take a pot with drainage holes and fill it with potting mix. Plant queen of the night into the potting mix.
8) Finally sprinkle little bit of water.
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