what cuttings are you taking now

[Chuckles]

Great tip for all you cuttings fans gardenworld.proboards.com/post/492181

[Chuckles]

I've just done some cuttings of this www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/clerodendrum-trichotomum/classid.933/ and some basal cuttings of a lovely cerise pink scabiosa

[Ladygardener]

Do you have it growing in your garden Chuckles, it's an amazing tree for a big garden.
Some of the Pelargonium cuttings I took have died off. I think they were too wet.

[Chuckles]

Not yet Ladygardener there is a story behind the cuttings here gardenworld.proboards.com/thread/10555/couple-ids?page=1&scrollTo=492994

Sorry to hear about your Pelargoniums, keeping stuff just at the right level of moisture isn't always easy a good amount of small gravel or similar is always helpful to keep the drainage right

[Ladygardener]

I see what you mean now Chuckles. Hope some of the cuttings take for you.
Pelargoniums are a bit hit and miss with me even 'tho they're ment to be really easy. I'll go easy on the watering from now on.

[Chuckles]

Lavenders are supposed to be easy but I never have any luck with them, you win some you lose some

[Auricula]

I can never get lavender to root either

[isabella]

I have a houseplant Chlerodendron and last year I shoved some cuttings into plain perlite  after seeing Rosefriends results with her cuttings - 4 of them rooted and are growing really well   

 

[Jilly]

Aug 22, 2013 19:22:33 GMT Auricula said:

I can never get lavender to root either

I never had any luck with lavender either, then a couple of years ago OH decided to have a go, they rooted & we've had luck every year since.

What we do is use a terracotta pot filled with a mix of gravel & cutting compost (about 70% gravel), I do it around now, when I'm cutting them back & just use any shoots that need cutting off. Give them a trim & push them into the compost as normal, don't cover them & give them one good water. Then put them somewhere semi-shady outside (I use the top shelf of my plant stand) & then just ignore them, no extra water, no tugging to see if they've rooted. Just pull out the dead ones (there's always one or 2). At least a few should have rooted by next spring. My last years ones were out in all the cold & wet of last winter & I'm just about to pot up a couple.

[Auricula]

Thanks Jilly, I'll try that

[Barbara]

I've just done 2 pots of osteos it's Jillys fault.

[Ladygardener]

I'll try that too Jilly thanks.

[Jilly]

I always say they've got 2 chances Barbara & if it works you've saved yourself some money for next year. Osteos are a bit more temperamental than some of the other stuff, for some reason the purple is always really easy but the lovely orange ones are a bit more of a pain.

I've got quite a few (Heleotrope & Salvias mainly) to pot up from the last lot I did (not Peach Cobbler yet I'm afraid Tig that's being a bit slow  :, I was planning to do them this afternoon but it's tipping it down here still & for some strange reason OH objects to be doing it in the kitchen   probably leave it until Monday now.

[Barbara]

I want to do some trailing fuchsia for Sharon for next year, does anyone have a foolproof way.

[Auricula]

Just the usual softwood or semi ripe cuttings Barbara. I usually take some every year and they always all take. Fuchsias root very easily. I use mpc, keep the cuttings dryish, no rooting powder, no bottom heat. I put 4 to a 3" pot and put them in a propagator for about 5 days. Then I take the lid off and just leave them ( watering a little, every week) I've rarely had a failure - and I'm no expert

[Barbara]

Thanks Auricula, is that in the Autumn, Sharon wants to enter the best pub in bloom or something similar and I don't think just the ivy is going to cut it.

[Auricula]

Yes, you can start taking them from now onwards, right through until they start to get too woody and sticklike. Good luck.

[Tig]

Monty did them on GW this week I think Barbara along with some penstemon cuttings - it should be on again in the morning if you missed it

Jilly don't worry about Peach Cobbler, LG got one to root and sent it to me so I have the full set now

I was looking for cuttings on the pelargoniums today, but I think I did them later last year and they all survived in one largish pot in the front bedroom window

[Barbara]

I taped it this week Tig, so I can watch it sometime this week then thanks.

[isabella]

Aug 24, 2013 17:03:47 GMT Barbara said:

I want to do some trailing fuchsia for Sharon for next year, does anyone have a foolproof way.

Barbara - I always have more success with the  cuttings of Fuchsias I take in February. I take 6 cuttings per 3 " pot of mpc or 24 in cell trays ,cover them with a lid and put them on a windowsill .  Puts Folly is my favourite Fuchsia for baskets - it never stops flowering all Summer.
The baskets on my basket tree will be cut back and all foliage removed then I hang them in the greenhouse - by the new year there will be plenty of fresh growth for cuttings.

[Barbara]

Thanks Issy, I'll do both ways then, and hope to get some to take for her.

[Ladygardener]

Barbara I took loads of cuttings last year and they did really well for me. I just stuck them into 50/50 perlite and mp compost. I'll be taking more this year.

[Barbara]

Well I did eventually find some side shoots without flowers on, but it wasn't easy, but I have made a start with them, they are on the cold frame until I decide where to overwinter them.

[Ladygardener]

A pelaronium which was a lovely shade of pink, somehow dropped a cutting into my bag recently. I've got it in 100%perlite at the moment to see if it will grow on for me. I need to take some more cuttings as some of my Salvia and Fuschia have keeled over.
Barbara, they say you can if you must, take cuttings from side shoots that do have flowers on them, just pinch out the flower buds.

[Barbara]

I'm going to keep the cuttings I've taken in the little back room that leads to the garden here at home, if it gets crowded can I keep some in the GH at the lotty, and if I do will it need insulating.

[Ladygardener]

I use bubblewrap inside my little growhouse Barbara, it does help a bit I think.

[Jilly]

I would think they'd be fine in the greenhouse Barbara, my Mum kept quite a few of the cuttings I gave her last Autumn in her unheated greenhouse just covered with fleece. I think the only reason I lose a lot of mine in the growhouse is that it's so small it gets colder quicker (if that makes sense). I usually keep at least one of each in the spare room as a sort of insurance, then if I lose all the others I've got something to take cuttings from in the Spring.

I took some of the orange Osteos at the weekend, just watch them not do anything now I've said that they were easy   

[Barbara]

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Thanks Jilly and LG. if this lot take off Sharons pub will be glowing.

[Barbara]

I realise now I didn't explain myself properly at the start of all this, I really wanted to know if you take cuttings will they all be trailing, or do you have to take them from the ''right'' place.

[Jilly]

Oh that's a good question Barbara, I'm not much of a Fuchsia expert but from what I remember my Dad just used to take what bits he could & they all turned out as they should. I think it's when you want to grow a trailing one as a standard you have to make sure that you take the cutting from an upright facing shoot to get the stem first