Mint Question

apcardy · July 2023

Evening All,

I have a Mint growing in a pot and it has started sending out shoots/runners from the base as per the picture (apologies for the sideways picture). I assume they are what would result in the invasive nature of mint were it to be planted in the ground. If this is the case, can they be used to propagate more plants and if so, how.

Thanks in anticipation of your responses.

Andrew

AnniD · July 2023

To be honest l've never taken root cuttings from mint, but it looks like it might be possible.
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-take-mint-cuttings/

Pete.8 · July 2023

The runners it has produced can provide lots of plants.
Each pair of leaves on the runner can become a new plant and that's how they spread so fast.
If that stem was laying on the ground many of them would form roots.
Once the roots are abt 2-3" long you can cut it from the parent plant and pot up all your new plants.
You could use pots or seed trays, but being in a pot it's going to be less easy.

Fairygirl · July 2023

I always had my strawberries in pots @apcardy , and took the runners from them by pegging them down into another pot beside the main one, raised up off the ground on bricks or another upturned pot etc.
That would probably be the easiest method in those circumstances, as pegging down a piece is certainly straightforward. They look long enough to do that with too. It'll just take a bit of fiddling around with initially

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