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Cuttings help

Quercusrobur81Quercusrobur81 Posts: 231
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Hello, me again

I took some lavender cuttings last summer and they are showing signs of new growth with roots poking out of the bottom of the pot 👍. Only thing is they look quite straggly:
can I do anything to get them to bush out and look more like normal plants and less like a stick of lavender? Or should they start sending up more growth from the base?

Thanks

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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Cut off the end few inches, and they will bush out.  Unfortunately, nothing is going to grown on the brown bottom leggy bit.  Maybe you can just pot them on deeper?  
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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Pot them up into bigger pots using gritty compost - JI No.2 plus grit/sharp sand. Cut off the top 6 inches. If it was me, I would pot them into deeper pots, with the soil to the top of the root ball and then fill to the top of the pot with pure grit to hide that leggy stem, and cut the top off! 
    Moss on that pot means they have been kept too wet. The soil needs to be free draining and a sunny site. 
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  • Quercusrobur81Quercusrobur81 Posts: 231
    Thanks-will give that a try, the leggy base does look rubbish! Hopefully they’ll bush out and I can get them in the ground by the end of summer.
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