Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Curiosity question about water rooting your experience?, 0 by hoyanut

hoyanut wrote:
Sharon, thanks for asking this question, as it was very helpful for me too.

Mel, Marcy, Mark, Matt, & Milan (unusual all names beginning with M's) you were all helpful to me. I learned a lot. I was never very successful with using just perlite in the past, but I never put holes in the bottom of my container, another lesson learned. I also don't have a heat mat, but have used a regular heating pad, still without a lot of success. I tried Milan's bag rooting strategy and was successful getting roots on 2 new cuttings of onychoides. I did put a little sphagnum moss in the zip lock bag with the cuttings. I opened the bag to give it some air every couple of days. Before I tried this, I had the cuttings in damp sphagnum moss for at least 3 weeks, thankfully I didn't lose them, but they had no roots on them either, until I tried the bag method. They were in the bag about 1 week when I first saw a teeny tiny root. The smallest 1 node cutting showed the first root, but now look the larger cutting, with a lot longer & more roots. I am really pleased with the sucess. The other lessons I learned, is to let the water sit out a couple days. Thanks everyone, you have made me one step closer to having more confidence it rooting cuttings. Deb

P.S. Don't run for your glasses or think you need your eyes checked, it's just an out of focused picture, sorry.

This message was edited Aug 15, 2005 9:13 PM