I bought a small pack of 4 bedding fuschias in May, pinched the tips out to make them bushier and popped the trimmings in water. The resulting plants are now roughly the same size as the parent plants when I bought them.
Thanks B3 😁. They need potting on though. I have an old glass spice jar full of rooted rosemary on the kitchen windowsill too 😳. I start with good intentions, then life gets in the way.
Photo of some really early rosemary cuttings (March I think?) taken from a bush in the garden. Gone a bit mildewy 😝.
I'm trying to get quite a few cuttings to root such as clematis, tamarisk, salix flamingo, azalea, plus more; having tried rooting them in soil with very little, if no, success I'm going to try some in water. I have tried certain ones before but they just seem to rot. But brian.mckay you've just given me an idea about the propagator, I bought a room mister (won for under a tenner on eBay) with the intention of using it for my pet lizards but I'm wondering if I could rig something up as a propagator with it 🤔. I find fuschias, hydrangea and weigela really easy but want to multiply some of my other plants to grow as bonsais mainly.
I think so Liriodendron. I found some videos on YouTube of how to make your own hydroponics system with a little misting device so my room mister should do the trick if I thread an outlet pipe into a box with a lid on it and the cuttings poked through holes in the lid maybe. I'd have to keep an eye on the water level but it holds enough for about 24 hours if its on a timer to spray every few minutes or so. I'll use one of those cheap storage boxes I think. I may aswell give it a go
I have rooted cuttings form my hibiscus houseplant in water so am just wondering if it would work with the outdoor kind. Must be worth a try.
I had to hack a self sown honeysuckle out of a clematis pot and couldn't save the root so have had several stems in a vase of water for weeks. Nothing doing but not dead either. I've now added a soluble aspirin to see if they'll take the hint.
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Photo taken today, they are in 7cm pots.
I start with good intentions, then life gets in the way.
Photo of some really early rosemary cuttings (March I think?) taken from a bush in the garden.
Gone a bit mildewy 😝.
Windowsill rootings are the trimmings from these.
I had to hack a self sown honeysuckle out of a clematis pot and couldn't save the root so have had several stems in a vase of water for weeks. Nothing doing but not dead either. I've now added a soluble aspirin to see if they'll take the hint.