Tel
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Post by Tel on Feb 29, 2012 16:05:22 GMT
Rooting cuttings in water, do you just cut them below a leaf joint?
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Post by Jilly on Feb 29, 2012 16:15:22 GMT
I'm not even that precise Tel, I just take any broken off bits & pop them in a jam jar.
Jillyx
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 29, 2012 16:25:15 GMT
Me neither. I just strip off the lower leaves and make sure about 10cms of stalk is in the water.
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Post by maggy on Feb 29, 2012 20:38:11 GMT
I dont even put them in water I dip them in rooting powder then stick them incompost in the small polygreenhouse that they came through the post in I get 80% success.
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Post by Auricula on Mar 1, 2012 9:11:19 GMT
I don't use rooting powder - I find they root really easily in compost...but....I have absolutely NO success with water  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 1, 2012 10:49:16 GMT
Fingers crossed for mine then.  |
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Tel
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Post by Tel on Mar 3, 2012 7:27:50 GMT
I have placed some cuttings of Electric Blue into water, will see if they do anything.  |
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Post by Auricula on Mar 4, 2012 11:44:52 GMT
Just been potting on some penstemon babies. They've all been outside on the gravel nursery bed and we had a lot of rain last night. All were very wet........................except Louise Wilson I potted on about half a dozen LWs and all their compost was as dry as a bone  They weren't grouped together and were open to the elements, she must just be a quick drainer....worth keeping an eye on if you have her in a pot  |
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Post by andy on Mar 4, 2012 11:50:09 GMT
Just sown some p. mystica seeds which are already germinating. Anyone grow them ?
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Post by Auricula on Mar 4, 2012 16:33:46 GMT
They're the digitalis ones, I did grow Husker's red at some time but don't know if I still have it. I'm rubbish at seeds Dorothy Wilson dries out a bit too.....must be the name. It's my maiden name actually,( my "proper" name) so I grow lots of them ;D |
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Post by Tig on Mar 21, 2012 15:48:08 GMT
I've got huskers red Andy, (Auricula I sent you a cutting last year - did it not survive!!) I thought I'd lost it as after flowering it disappeared completely, although it was overshadowed by other plants. To my amazement it has sprouted up in quite a big clump this year so fingers crossed it is settled in and performs well again. I'm delighted that so many of mine have survived the winter, although I haven't cut them back yet as we are still getting frosts. I notice I've lost one of the Blue Spring but the two others look OK so I must try and get some cuttings rooted from them this year. All my other losses are red ones, and none of the cuttings I took from those grew  x Tig |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 21, 2012 16:06:50 GMT
Might be able to sort that out for you Tig |
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Post by Tig on Mar 21, 2012 16:36:47 GMT
 Hope they are toughies like all their brothers and sisters ;D Light of life, Willys Purple, Hidcote Pink and the one I muddled it up with and put in the wrong place (whose name eludes me at this moment), are all looking very strong and healthy  x Tig
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 21, 2012 16:45:48 GMT
They move ok Tig if you want to relocate the one that's in the wrong place. My poor old Garnet did a whole tour of the garden before it eventually got cheesed off with me! ;D
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Post by Tig on Mar 21, 2012 16:50:13 GMT
I'm not going to risk it Jas, it seems happy where it is and my beds/borders are not that well colour co-ordinated anyway .... I tend to think of them as 'Rainbows' of flowers ;D
x Tig
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 21, 2012 16:51:02 GMT
Rainbows sounds good! ;D
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 22, 2012 6:30:32 GMT
Most of the cuttings I took have died off. I've salvaged a couple of Raven and now have them in perlite mixed with mp compost so we'll see what happens. The mother plants are hanging in there.
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 22, 2012 8:54:37 GMT
Once they get sprouting LG it'll be a good time to try some more cuttings if you want. Have you read CK's article in this month's (well, April technically! ;D) GW magazine. She was saying that at this time of the year there are lots of growth hormones at the base of new sprouts and if you take cuttings they just want to root and get growing. Makes sense I guess.
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 22, 2012 15:30:37 GMT
I just got it today Jasmine and had a quick flick through it. I might try some again when they grow a bit. |
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Post by Tig on Mar 22, 2012 16:59:50 GMT
Eleanor Young was the one I forgot the name of yesterday, spotted the label as I weeding earlier  I'll get some cuttings as soon as they have a few more inches of new growth showing, or could I use the older bits that I prune off? x Tig |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 22, 2012 17:04:03 GMT
I tried that with Woodpecker Tig and they all wilted on me  So now I'm waiting for the new growth. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 22, 2012 17:05:13 GMT
Perhaps that's what I did wrong. |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 22, 2012 18:05:46 GMT
Hopefully we'll all do better with some spring cuttings!
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Tel
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Post by Tel on Mar 23, 2012 6:32:00 GMT
I have placed some cuttings of Electric Blue into water, will see if they do anything. The 3 cuttings of Electric Blue, have now produced roots. I took the cuttings by cutting just below the leaf joint in the same way i take dahlia cuttings, if this made a difference or not i do not know. |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 23, 2012 6:38:54 GMT
Brilliant Tel! That was quick!
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 23, 2012 7:07:42 GMT
That's how I did it too but our water has a lot of chlorine in it, perhaps that's why mine did'nt work. I'm hoping for much better results now that I've got plenty of perlite, I might even get some Lavender (which everyone else says is easy) to root for me this year. |
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Post by Missredhead on Apr 2, 2012 19:03:55 GMT
My penstemons that were all nicely labelled have now got the wrong labels in their pots...courtesy of GD
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 2, 2012 19:15:16 GMT
Oh dear!
You'll be able to work it out when they start flowering!
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Post by Missredhead on Apr 2, 2012 19:16:04 GMT
oh yes....red, dark red and pink..... ;D
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 2, 2012 19:19:29 GMT
Yup, or that!! ;D
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They weren't grouped together and were open to the elements, she must just be a quick drainer....worth keeping an eye on if you have her in a pot 
So now I'm waiting for the new growth.