| What ever you do, do not use hormones. My experience is that rooting hormes have the exact opposite effect on sympodials and will stop rooting and make the plant put out more growths if the hormone gets on the rhyzome.
Kevin, I only recently started to use systemic fungicides, so yes, I do now, but most of my experience is without fungicides and the plants don't rot unless rot was already present in the plant. I think systemic fugicides are a very good idea, since the plants come out of the bag very tender and can secumb to fungal problems after being removed from the bag and are asked to handle a great deal lower humidity than they were used to in the bag.
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Cynthia
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