What is the raw egg method, I am new to Plumies.

At the start of the season (begining of March) I received some very special cuttings so I put them in pots with soil water them and put them in a sunny spot. After 5 months no signs of roots, but it was because I had left the inflos on them by the time I realized what was happening it was very late in the season to start all over again. I took the inflos off and re potted them again using the egg-rooting method. 3 weeks later and all of them are showin signs of rooting, bright shiny claws, leaves tha are actually growing so I'm really happy I thought I had lost them all. I tried it on 16 cuttings and around 12 are growing roots so I think the results are great.

Erika, thanks for letting me know how it worked for you. Sounds like you have a lot of good experience with the method. Hope all your precious cuttings thrive!

When I got no immediate response here I asked my imminently practical husband who pointed out that the most I had to lose was an egg, since if my cutting rotted one way or the other I had a lot of stem left to cut and start over with. I went ahead and gently removed my cutting and placed the egg beneath before replacing the soil again and re-staking it.

Palms, this is a rooting method I read of here in old posts wherein you place a whole raw, uncracked egg at the bottom of the pot before placing an unrooted cutting in the pot. It's supposed to help speed up the rooting process and make the roots ultimately stronger. I'm not sure the mechanics of why it works, if it's the beneficial bacteria produced by the decomposing egg, or the gases it exudes. Maybe these things discourage rot-causing fungi? Anyway, a few members here have sworn by it, and learned of it from the Aloha plumeria forum at Yahoo. If you Google "raw egg rooting" you should find the relevant posts.

Hello I just wanted to share with you my experience with the egg-rooting method. I've had a cutting for almost a year I got it late in the season (around Oct. 09) and I wasn't about to give up on it, so I repotted using the egg method and now it has roots!!! Yay I'm so happy so I think you'll have great results using this method and from now on every cutting that I get will be planted using the raw egg. ;-)

By the time you are ready to move the plumie to a larger pot is the egg completely decomposed or do you have to be really careful to avoid breaking open a very rotten old egg?

Also, do any of you high science folks have theories as to what the chemistry is that makes this method effective.

TIA for any insight you can provide.

I hope I don't sound like a no-it-all but from what I learned on the forum it is the probiotics in that the egg produces that help the egg root. Also, it can take a period of a few months or longer but eventually that entire egg will be used by the plumeria.
I have seen pics of the roots that actually reach for the egg.
I am a HUGE fan of this method. I am a true convert.
Andrew

Sorry for the typo LMAO..I meant the probiotics help the cutting root, not the EGG root! LOL!

Andrew...

Yeah, I figured that was the case, sometimes my posts seem like they were typed with my feet!