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Forsythe pot addiction...

becky.a.rawlinsonbecky.a.rawlinson Posts: 12
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The kitchen is becoming cutting central after a lovely colleague has decided to take it upon herself to provide me with ALL of her offcuts - of everything!

Bless her, not everything arrives in particularly good working order but I've found myself experimenting with the Forsythe pot this year and loving it so far! 

What does everyone think of this method? I've found significantly less rotting and my success rate is higher than its ever been so I'm chuffed - probably because I'm not sentimently attached to any of these yet though so not as much riding on them taking!

Picture 1 & 3 draw focus to a few rose cuttings that have been in there for about 5 weeks now - I checked them recently and 2/3 have new roots forming but nothing to write home about just yet. I have noticed some of the stems are browning/drying from the top down and a few leaves have been a bit "black spot-ish" so have been removed - have any of you found luck with cuttings displaying these characteristics? 

Picture 2 is of some particularly spindly rose cuttings which have only been in for about a week - they were very warped anyway so not a great deal of hope there but we shall see what we are dealt! 

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  • jmagrath201654565jmagrath201654565 Posts: 1
    Hello Becky and pansyface, if you see this much belated comment, apologies but I have only just come across your note on the Forsyth (correct) Pot. I am a direct descendant of Alexander Forsyth who invented it, and if you would like more information about him, do please contact me and I will send you a biography. Briefly, I have been going through the many articles he wrote for The Gardener's Chronicle etc and have been able to trace his career starting at Meldrum House and Fyvie in Scotland, learning the trade at Oakhill, Kenwood and Syon, becoming head gardener at Alderley Park, then Alton Towers, where he planted the arboretum, and then becoming head gardener for I K Brunel at Watcombe in Devon, before moving to Salford but keeping up a prolific correspondence with the gardening periodicals of the day. He worked in partnership with Nesfield for two decades and was much admired in Victorian times. I can be contacted at [email protected] 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    How interesting.
    I'll tag @becky.a.rawlinson and @pansyface so they get notified of your post.



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  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    For once all those pointless searches on Ancestry.com have come to something 😂
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