I have propagated and given away giant-leaf dieffenbachia (18" leaves) for years. I keep my plants in the house year round.
In my house, they grow a single trunk until they reach the ceiling. I cut them down and cut up the trunk, root the top and the trunk pieces, and the original bottom still in the soil grows another single-trunk plant.
A friend who has one of my dumb cane progeny left it outside for the summer, and just brought it in for the Fall. She called to say that it now has beads of moisture around the edges of the leaves. That has never happened in my own house. She also said that it has four new baby stalks shooting up from the base, That is also something that I have never encountered.
What is going on. Too much moisture? Too much summer sun? Are the drips safe, or are they severe irritants like the sap?
- David