what cuttings are you taking now

[Rosefriend]

Blimey isabella - a few cuttings it is....is that the GH that you keep heated in winter?? They really are all looking marvellously healthy..

RF

[Ladygardener]

Just a few then isabella smilx All looking really healthy as always.

[Jilly]

When I had to cut the Penstemons back a few weeks ago (so that they were hiding the emerging bulbs) they had so much fresh growth on them, I couldn't stand just to throw it all away, so I bunged quite a few stems in water, just potted up 5 well rooted cuttings yesterday. As always because it was just odd shoots & I've no idea which ones they are, they've done really well, bet if I'd known what they were & labelled them, they wouldn't have rooted.

[Chuckles]

Well done Jilly I know just what you mean about throwing stuff away, at one time I'd do cuttings of everything and anything that I snipped couldn't help myself I used to put a limit on how many or I'd have needed a 3 acre garden, up to 10 was about my limit on the theory that 50% would take. Yep if you'd labelled them, they wouldn't have rooted

I've got one of those oblong plastic plant troughs up the garden with holes in the bottom, I bunged a load of Penstemen trimmings in that back end last year, ones that had got bent over etc with the weather , I would say 75% are looking like goers. I didn't trim them, strip leaves off or do anything at them, just bunged them in and I've no clue which of my 3 varieties they are.

[Ladygardener]

Jilly, Chuckles, your green fingers are showing, that's for sure. I'm rubbish at growing Penstemons and have gone through quite a few over the years. Still going for me at the moment is the Tubular Bells Wine Red that I got as a plug last year from Van Meuwen. Is now the time to cut back the stalks I've kept over the winter? I've got new growth coming up through the soil. If I cut it back now then I'll stick the cuttings into water and see what happens.

I've taken 2 cuttings from one of the overwintering tender pink Fuchsia and they look as if they've taken.

[keithb]

Hi
trying to read/download andys piece on propagating but when i click on the link just get a message telling me the url has been updated and it won,t show me the doc Heeeeeelp
keith

[Rosefriend]

Apr 25, 2015 14:19:34 GMT keithb said:

Hi
trying to read/download andys piece on propagating but when i click on the link just get a message telling me the url has been updated and it won,t show me the doc Heeeeeelp
keith

Hi Keith keithb, - welcome - it is an older thread before we converted to Version 5, - that is the reason...

What is about Hardwood Cuttings - if so here is the link..I shall carry on looking..

gardenworld.proboards.com/post/128873/thread

[andy]

This time of year, we would be looking at soft or greenwood cuttings.....hardy Salvias, hardy Fuschsias, Rock roses, hardy Osteospermums and carnations/dianthus could all be done done.

Keep the cuttings as humid as possible....enclose the cutting in a sealed plastic bag and keep warm either in an electric propagator or on a warm window sil.


Is there anything specific you were looking for Keith ?

[keithb]

was looking for general info on all types of propagation thought perhaps your article would help i do a lot of flower cuttings have a weakness for fuschsias my dahlias i tend to collect the seed as i do with a lot of the flower plants but just lately been looking at taking cuttings for shrubs. The rose cuttings i took last autumn are all doing well i put them in the sand box till they rooted, still like to have reading material though thats why i was trying to download your piece on propagation

ps. thanks for taking the trouble to reply

[andy]

No problems mate...i used to be propagator with Brighton Parks.

Fuchsias and Dahlias can be done now. With Dahlias, you usually start the tubers into growth early...maybe January, then when the growth reaches 3", you take cuttings, preferably removing a slither of the tuber too. You continue doing this and then, by the time the cutting is rooted, it can be grown on and planted out in June where it will grow well.

Bottom heat is most welcome with cuttings as is reducing water loss. I remove all but 2 leaves on most cuttings to stop it losing water.

Shrubs are usually taken as semi-ripe cuttings. Once the initial soft growth has matured a bit and is slightly more rigid, that's the time to take shrub cuttings.  The growth is known as being semi ripe as opposed to softwood (early new growth) or hardwood (as per my article above).  

Semi ripe cuttings are usually taken from late june through to september

[keithb]

thanks for that andy and thanks to RF for the link got summat to read now when i need a break lol

[Rosefriend]

Apr 26, 2015 15:47:55 GMT keithb said:

thanks for that andy and thanks to RF for the link got summat to read now when i need a break lol

Great keithb - shout up if you want to know anything !!

[Ladygardener]

I took a cutting from the Stachys Byzantina that I'd dug up during the winter. I'm giving the main plant to little Aoife as she loves it but would still like to keep a bit for myself.
My Dahlia cuttings have rooted and made lovely little plantlings. Pity I did'nt label them so I've no idea which ones they are.

[Chuckles]

Ladygardener, Look how well the Sarcococca cuttings you sent me are doing 2 of the 3 are growing well unfortunately the one at the back got all its leaves eaten of by something but I'm sure it will come back. Many thanks, I'm really pleased with them.

[Ladygardener]

They're looking good Chuckles, glad to see they've settled into their new home.
I took some more late winter and they're getting good roots on them. I do like to have a stand by as I've lost so many over the years. The parents that all these cuttings from must be of harder stock.

[Ladygardener]

They're doing great for you Chuckles.

[Barbara]

Jilly said she took cuttings from her wall flowers so I thought I'd try as well, a dozen are now potted up. fingers crossed.

[Ladygardener]

They should do well for you Barbara, I've done them before as well.

I took a cutting of one of the Fuschias, I'd knocked a whole branch off when I was using the hose last night.

Funny, when I cut the Roses back in winter, I used the cuttings to keep the cats off the bare soil and stuck a couple of them in straight. When I was watering last night I noticed that one of them has taken root! I've no idea which one it is but I'll see how it goes.

[Barbara]

I took 12 cuttings from my red fuschia, I have a book for plant recognition, I must look up which one it is.

[Chuckles]

Ladygardener , 12 months on an I've managed to keep them going. The bigger one even produced me some flowers this year they've all been potted on again and the nibbled one is hanging on, just

[Ladygardener]

Chuckles, I'm delighted for you.

[Chuckles]

Jun 4, 2016 15:09:11 GMT Ladygardener said:

Chuckles , I'm delighted for you.

I'm delighted too, all those I've bought and lost over the years and now I have special ones from Ireland 

[Ladygardener]

I was the same Chuckles, until I finally got there and now my 2 little bushes are doing great and I've sent rooted cuttings to a few friends and both my girls.

[Barbara]

I've just done some fuschia I hope they do better than the last lot.

[Ladygardener]

I recently took a cutting from a bronze osteo that I'd overwintered from last year and potted up a couple of pelargonium cuttings and a laurentia cutting that I'd done just for the heck of it.

Barbara, I've successfully taken Fuschia cuttings and grown them on for this year, I've taken a couple last week from a lovely one I grow for the leaves, I always root mine in water. Worth a go if yours don't take for you.

[Barbara]

It's worth a try later Ladygardener,

[Barbara]

I've put 3 into a glass jar Ladygardener, thanks.

[Ladygardener]

Best of luck Barbara.

[Jilly]

I seem to have lost my talent for rooting cuttings in water, I'm on the second lost of Lady Boothby Fuchsia (as my neighbour loves it and want's some) and can't get them going at all. Had some Hardy Wallflower shoots in water for 2 weeks & no sign of those either.

[Barbara]

I looked yesterday and I can see some tiny roots, thank you Ladygardener, Jilly, how long should I keep them in water now ?.