Propagation by canes

[bil]

Originally Posted by gngrhill

I am curious as to how you can get the Den Phals to not have a bunch of leafless canes. All my Den Phals have leafless canes, as many or more than the canes that have leaves on them.

Well, when I got them they were in a very bad state, and the old canes were dead, so I pulled them off as they were rotting, and threw them out . A couple of the other rescues do have old canes, and even in the pink there are a couple of small ones.. The pink pot is mostly this year's growth. I suspect they will be so crammed together that I will have to remove half of them when I repot.
One hard cane in another pot is about two feet tall, and that's without the spike.