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rooting cuttings - 9/17/2009 7:54:13 PM
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gardengirl
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I overwinter a large number of my plants by taking cuttings and rooting them. I've had a very good success rate by using forsythe pots for rooting the cuttings. Take a 8 or 10 in. plastic pot, cover the drainage holes with a paper towel or coffee filter. Fill the pot with vermiculite.Push a small unglazed clay pot into the vermiculite. You can plug the drainage hole in the clay pot with a rubber plug or floral clay. Soak the vermiculite thouroughly, then add water to theclay pot as well. Insert your cuttings into the vermiculite. Push a couple of chopsticks dowels, or bamboo sticks into the pot and cover with a plastic bag. Add water to the clay pot as needed. You now have a mini greenhouse in which to pamper your cuttings while they root.
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RE: rooting cuttings - 9/18/2009 8:10:47 PM
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Timothygrass
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Even with a greenhouse (at the estate where I garden), we still overwinter on a pretty small scale for some of the annuals. Early in the season, we root "mother plants" and keep them potted; they come into the greenhouse (or could also come into the house), as potted plants, until February, when we start making a bunch of cuttings to root for the following year. Some plants (like coleus) simply get too woody to try to overwinter, but with the cuttings from the mother plant, we're able to get a head start on the summer season, and save a fortune in the process!
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RE: rooting cuttings - 9/22/2009 4:37:43 PM
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the undergardener
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I do a fair amount of cuttings each year. Mainly geraniums, because I've come across several that I really like - and I know full well that nothing lasts forever! This way, I'm assured of having what I want, and they're outrageously easy to do. I do some in plastic pots, some in clay seed pans. I also am on my second year of growing an annual/houseplant from cuttings - I have a concrete planter modeled after a classical woman's head, and I wanted a trailing plant for it so that she'd look as if she had long hair. I found Callisia repans, a/k/a Bolivian wandering Jew. It's something of a succulent, with glossy, tiny green leaves. The first year, as fall approached, I decided to see how easily it would root - and it was very easy. Now I don't have to worry about trying to find it every spring!
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RE: rooting cuttings - 9/23/2009 7:52:30 PM
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gardengirl
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The "hair' sounds wonderful. The quirky part of my mind popped up an image of how your planter might look with corkscrew rush growing in it. Bravo to you on the geraniums. Geraniums and I don't get along to well, I have a tendency to kill them with kindness.
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