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Fushia sprouting from roots

I have a tiny fushia going underground by roots and popping up in the middle of another flower bed. How can I remove it and grow it on? It's growing from a root so do I take the root or do I chop off the new growth at the root and plant that?
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited October 2023
    Take as much root as you can  but you don't need to be too particular because soft wood cuttings root easily in water or damp ( not wet) compost anyway.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I agree. Chopping off the root won't hurt the parent plant (although it might encourage more shoots to form).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Put your foot/weight on the main fuchsia and give a tug.  Pot up the new plant; although it is a bit late in the season.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’d like to actually see that,  I’ve got several very large fuchsias here and never had one that produced roots long enough to produce a new plant in another border..
    have you got photos of this fuchsia and it’s offspring? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I still get them coming up from left-behind roots of one that I dug out a few years ago, several feet away from where the old plant was (although not with a path in between, just other plants), so I would say it's plausible at least.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • It's pale green leaves with thin purple bud and fushia skirt. Pic is from back of flower bed it's travelled about 3ft parent plant I dug up as had fushia mites it springs up in my paving too which is 5 to 6ft away. I had a fushia with dark leaves the other side that's spread everywhere too but again couldn't get rid of the mites so had to dig it all up.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Are you sure that's fuchsia? It looks more like a tree seedling to me (possibly cherry/other prunus) but I suppose the way to be sure would be to dig it up, grow it on and see what happens.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Yeah I'm sure it's on the long fushia root, they have come up before but once I potted up they die. Hence my question as I have potted with both root attached and cut off above root.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Try taking more root, if you can, and as big a soil ball around it as you can manage. Like most suckers they tend to want to break where they join the root, so dig rather than pull. If the shoot breaks off, you've got a cutting which might root better in water, although we're a bit late in the season for that. Another option would be to leave it to grow some more and try digging it up when it's bigger and stronger, maybe next spring.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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