A Literature Review Propagation and Management Plant physiologists often select sago for experimental purposes because the plant can be grown in pure liquid media, which eliminates variables introduced by soils or other substrates.
Vessels made of stoneware, wood, plastic, fiberglass, or glass are suitable.
Either natural or artificially compounded liquid media and bottom substrates have given good results, as have tap water and garden soil. Drupelets can be stored either wet or dry, but wet storage in natural waters at temperatures just above freezing approximates the dormancy period for materials from temperate regions. Turions can also be stored in water at low temperatures or packed in layers of saturated moss. Dry storage in straw at low temperatures is also recommended if turions are free of bottom soil. Drupelets can be directly harvested or sometimes readily collected along lake shorelines after late summer storms.