At that Indian site, you have an Indian English dialect and idioms that make the English quite hard to follow for an American English speaker. The page layout doesn't help, either.

Everything looks quite straightforward and easy to obtain except the "biocides".

good link, thanks.

Hi "unautre"...

I thought is was easy to comprehend... And I'm dutch!
;-) just teasing ;-)

The chemicals are not that important. I read somewhere that placing the cuttings in sand instead of rich soil will decrease the effect(s) of fungus and/or pests.
This due to the little bit af acid that comes from the silicon or sand grains.

Every little bit helps...

Interesting reading and pics (wish they were bigger), especially the flute idea. I have had great success propagating both branch and culm cuttings but never used rooting hormones, insecticides, or fungicides. May try a few this way next time.

Also, based on my experience I agree with their statement "Success decreases with the increase in distance from the base". This both applies to branch and culm cuttings.

The concept of slicing out a chip from the culm cutting and forming a small hole through which to pour water and rooting chemicals seems interesting. I have never heard of anyone trying that before.

I wonder how long the water remain inside the culm to hydrate it?

Albem, my buddy always says...if you ain't dutch, you ain't much...i always like to say that when someone says they're dutch....

Kurt