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Propagate of cuttings
countrygal057
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Can you propagate carnation cuttings that have flowers
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You need unflowered shoots to take carnation cuttings.
Sometimes you can! I once received a lovely bunch of flowers, including carnations. The stems had not been trimmed to remove all the side shoots and I was able to detach and root a couple just like you would from the garden.
You can’t really take a cutting from the flowering stem , as Fidget says. You have to pull off those side shoots and use those, if you try to root the stalk with the flower on it, I doubt it will grow.