Variegated Alcantarea glaziouana pup

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

I was very happy to get a pup but, when I cam home today my puppy had taken it out of the pot and chewed the bottom. I was hoping some of the experts on this site could give me some tips to try and save it. Thanks for any help!

[virtualpalm]

It's toast, Jeff... sorry!

Jody

[The Silent Seed]

We have to see the pup now!

[BS Man about Palms]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

That is what I thought Jody. Thanks for the response.

[MattyB]

get a petri dish, some dish soap, a paper clip, two razor blades, a canadian bacon slab, and boil some water, STAT! I'm on my way!

[JD in the OC]

Wow, that sucks jeff. Sometimes it's tough to have pets and plants at the same time

[aussiearoids]

put it in some spahgnum and cxross your fingers ..

[Gonzer]

I think it's salvagable. I'd favor a VERY loose mix.

[aussiearoids]

I have rooted snapped off large hair pups in loose packed live sphagnum .. its your best bet imho

[Mandrew968]

I know I have gotten Imperials to grow, from pups I pulled off that had no root and I could see through the middle of them--very tough plants! Get that Canadian bacon hot--Matty's on his scooter, en route!

[XYZ]

Jeff:

While, it's not clear from the photo whether you have anything other than a few leaf whorls held together by tension and dirt, if there is any basal rosette tissue holding this plantlet together, I agree with Matt that it may be salvaged. I have rescued a number of valuable pups that I have hamfistedly "snapped" out of the centers of vrieasas and green-leaf tilliandsias before they had a fully-defined heel and (after a liberal salve of some very bad words in both Spanish and English) have treated them with Clonex gel (twice over 24 hours) and rooted in slightly damp sphag or pure pumice in bright shade. IF you have anything there other than leaf bases there this should work.

Fortunately, my dogs restrict their plant-vandalizing quirks to carefully removing tags from pots with their incisors...on an afternoon when she's bored, one of them will pull dozens of white plastic tags from the pots up on the succulent deck leaving them scattered about like a Popsicle stick massacre - minor coin when compared to the heinousness of this transgression.

Good luck,

J

[LJG]

Good luck with it Jeff. I have seen this often with dogs, in particular puppies. The smell of rotting broms or stagnate water is just too good for them to ignore.

[Palmzilla]

I dropped my Husky off at my dads place a few years ago when I went for a surf. When I got back he had ate about 60 rare brom's. My dog and I barley escaped alive!!!

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

Thanks everyone! I will keep you posted.

[Darold Petty]

Hi Jeff; Sorry about your bromeliad. I don't have any advice about your plant but wanted tell you about our dog. We always adopt young, unwanted dogs from the rescue service. On her very first night at our home our previous dog chewed my 15-gallon sized, in-ground Pritchardia minor all the way down to a stump.

She stayed with us the rest of her life, 14 more years. Dogs always give more than they cost, but that was a rough start!