Eucomis leaf cuttings

A couple of months ago after watching Gardeners World I had a go at some leaf cuttings from one of my Eucomis. From six cuttings three have taken. If you look carefully you'll see three of the four shoots that this one cutting has put up.
Bit of a result!
Any ideas how long before they will be of a flowering size?

 

Didn`t even know that you could propagate them with leaves cutting , propagate few bicolour Eucomis from seeds and that took me 3 years to reach a normal size and still no flower .
still looking for the giant Eucomis . got some white , bicolour and this year both an octopus eucomis ....

 

Neither did I until I saw the program.........
Clean cut required and plant the bottom part of the cutting into the soil.

 

Update:

The leaf cuttings are coming along rapidly now!
From the three cuttings that took there are now eight growths! They have continued to come through long after the shrivelled leaves were removed.

 

Which Eucomis is this longk and what sort of temperature have you maintained please?

 

It's E.comosa................



Cuttings were in a 50/50 mix of compost and grit placed on the windowsill at room temperature (no bottom heat applied). They were started off mid October.

 

Longk,I think I have some of those,mine are white. I was told they were a "ditch lily", so that's what I have always called them.There is a photo in my album section of this ditch lily in a pot,maybe it is a eucomis. Would you have a look and see if it is.

 

Had a look - deffo Eucomis, possibly E.autumnalis.................



Common name over here is Pineapple Lily.

 

L ongk, when you did the leaf cutting did you by chance dip the cut in hormone powder or just stick it back into the soil?

 

I tried some leaf cuttings given to me by a friend a couple of years ago, it was one of those dark leaved varieties.

Well done Longk, mine came to nothing.

I might give it a go with a plant I have which I grew from seed years ago, I think it might be Autumnalis.

Anyone dug up a clump?

They get very large bulbs.

Which is probably the best way of propagating.

 

Straight into the soil mix Kernowdreamer. Keep moist from below ie; soak, don't spray.

Pete - all the time that the bulbs multiplying below, but they can afford to donate the odd leaf too! What has surprised me is that new shoots appear a month after I removed what was left of the leaves.

The bottom part of the leaf must go into the soil.

 

I assume that tiny bulblets form on the base of the old leaf.

 

That is correct Pete.

 

Here is a photo of a young Eucomis bicolor.



What is interesting about this (to me anyway) is that it is a bulbil that I found growing on a spent flower stalk when I turned my compost over last autumn. I pulled it off and as you can see it is viable!

 

Intresting, never seen bulbils on flower stalks.