If you want a single stem plant, take tip cuttings. Remove all but a few leaves at the tip of the plant. Prepare the cutting so there is 2-3" of bare stem below the first leaf. Use perlite, screened Turface, or screened floor-dry from a NAPA or Car Quest store as your rooting medium. Stick the cutting(s) so the bottom leaf is barely above the rooting medium. Keep medium barely moist and the plant in dappled or open shade. If you want a bushy plant, with multiple stems, cut the tip of the stem off, making sure to remove the apical meristem (growing point at the branch end. Then, remove leaves from the bottom leaving 2-3 young leaves at the top of the stem. In either case, if the leaves are large, cut them in half across the veins to reduce transpirational water loss. Try to keep plants sheltered from the wind. No rooting hormone should be necessary - the cuttings strike easily. You can also rejuvenate the rest of the plant, too. If you have interest, I'll walk you through it. Al

I do the trenching method with success. Have to wait until January or February and cut off a 2-3 year old culm from the mother plant. Cut this down to the lowest node that is missing branches. Now cut off all branches except one per node (leave about 1 or two leaves per branch as without the root system to support it the leaves will dry out and die; you need to continue to have these leaves green and robust) and bury the whole culm/stem (do not cut into pieces since the energy of the whole stem will insure survival at each or most nodes). You will have to have your trench in 100% shade and keep it constanly moist but not standing in water. You may paint some rooting hormone (I like dip-n-gro) at the base of each node. I usually get roots at each node by October/November and these little plantlets sending up shoots from the gallon pots I put them in by the following year. This is gonna take all your patience but you will be handsomly rewarded. I use a combination of gravel/wood chips and sunshine mix in the trench and you must not let the trenches ever dry out completely or your work may all be wasted. Don't know what impact freezing weather may have on this process as I am doing this in a rainforest in a subalpine climate in Hawaii. Max day temps all year are 75 F and lowest night temps in February/March are 40 F.

The rosettes are how it starts the flower stalk. It will eventually put out flower buds. If you cut it and plant it, it will still turn into flowers. The leaves from these stems can sometimes be propagated. Pups/offsets will usually emerge closer to the base of the plant.

Hi Have had very good luck just sticking the cuttings into a pot of soil. They do need warmth and humidity. I find they tend to grow tall and leggy losing the lower leaves over time . I manage that by cutting the tops off and rooting those . I grow them in pots but outdoors in deep shade which slows the growth considerably. Of course there are a gazillion kinds and all I grow are the wide leaf muti colored and a variety called "Gold dust" which is dark green with many yellow spots leaf structure is 3 lobed so may be an entirely different species?? lol Good luck with them !! gary