In the small container, combine the organic coconut water, organic honey, and organic cinnamon powder.

Place a tiny amount of the paste on the central whorl of a rare begonia leaf and a baby will pop up right there, without the risk of removing leaves to make cuttings or damaging plant health. Do you have one of those crazy-expensive variegated aroids like monstera or philodendron, or carnivorous plants like nepenthes that you want to make a perfect copy of? Add some keiki paste to one of the dormant nodes – as close as possible to growth level – and watch it come to life. Everything acquires energy; growing new spikes, leaves, roots, keikis… So this is really something you have to consider yourself, if you want to manipulate your orchid to produce keikis. There’s no right or wrong. Scratch the kidney lightly with your fingernail or needle to allow the drug to penetrate the tissue, but very carefully.I had one plant in bloom die completely; another was infested by pests (probably it was more vulnerable or stressed?) right after. Crazy Keiki Cloning Paste on Other Plants It comes in very small amounts but you just need a tiny dab at a time. You could also buy the ingredients separately and mix your own. Tips For Success You can experiment with the concentration up to 4 parts of BAP to 1000 parts of lanolin but not more than that because of some adverse effects which I will explain below.

Counting from the base of the flower stalk, apply the paste to bud number 2 or 3 or 4. We do this because the first bud is least likely to produce babies and the fifth bud is most likely to produce a new branch—if anything.

Though keep in mind, keikis are never 100% guaranteed. We can try to manipulate the orchid’s behavior with hormones, but ultimately we don’t have full control over its behavior.