Propagate green taro

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Can I propagate green taro from this sucker (is this the right terminology)? Where should I cut?

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Absolutely! Just cut off the end part where the tuber (?) is growing those roots & stalk, then plant it. It's super easy to propagate taro because they constantly send out runners that grow into baby plants. The one growing in this picture was cut when it was just slightly larger than yours, then left free-floating in a small container water feature for two or three weeks before I got around to sticking it in some pea gravel along the side of our small waterfall. As you can see, it didn't miss a beat!
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Absolutely! Just cut off the end part where the tuber (?) is growing those roots & stalk, then plant it. It's super easy to propagate taro because they constantly send out runners that grow into baby plants. The one growing in this picture was cut when it was just slightly larger than yours, then left free-floating in a small container water feature for two or three weeks before I got around to sticking it in some pea gravel along the side of our small waterfall. As you can see, it didn't miss a beat!
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Aw, nice setting you got.

It's going to take a while, right? The cutting is sitting in a vase right now. Not looking bad, but not growing much either. Guess the plant is still half dormant...
 
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Aw, nice setting you got.

It's going to take a while, right? The cutting is sitting in a vase right now. Not looking bad, but not growing much either. Guess the plant is still half dormant...
Thanks! I'm in zone 7A, so mine definitely won't overwinter outside here. In the fall, before our first freeze, I cut any potted taro I have growing completely back to the tuber (remove all foliage, cutting stalks within a couple inches of its base) and bring them into my sunroom, where they live in their containers in a 100 gal. stock tank for Winter. They sometimes put on new growth, some/much of which actually fades (they are really prone to spider mite & other buggy infestations when inside, IME) but I don't worry about it. The goal here is to keep the tubers alive from mid-October until mid-April when they can go back outside. In your growing zone, I'd just plant that little puppy outside as soon as all danger of frost is past, whenever that is for you.
 

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I have about 30 of them in pots and a bunch of cold hardy banana plants also you can cover some of them in leaf mulch and they will survive . I put my pots in leaf mulch compost pile and they survive
 

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