Tropicals & Tender Perennials: What to do?, 0 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Hi Frannie! Good to see you back. I agree with Frannie. If you want 2 plants by root division, now is the time!! In spring everything is so much easier.

Or you can do a trick I do when I want even more cuttings of an extra special brug. On the sucker I wait till it is nice and fat with some old wood base. They grow fast when still attached to the mother with the big root system feeding it. I then cut the sucker off leaving a node or 2 at the base, then root the cutting I took off. At least 1 and often 2 to 3 more sprouts will shoot up from the nodes you left. They grow fast too for they are growing from the big root system.

Then I repeat that when these shoots get tall enough to harvest and they have some old wood to the base. I can end up with 4 layers going up doing this all the way up.

In this picture, I have already taken 3 cuttings from this brug, all marked #1, #2, #3. It is a hot double pink.

It has made 2 more for me to cut that you can see. One is still tooo green to take but the other is ready to be cut off. In fact it is huge, I let it get big waiting for spring. I will leave 2 nodes at the base when I cut it this week. This way, I will get more shoots on that one. Then when the other shoot gets bigger, I will take that also and it will then give me more side growth from the nodes I left there too. I can end up with a little cutting factory going. In spring and summer I can get lots of side shoots. I got these 2 in winter. At the same time, I have my main tree growing and flowering and carrying on for my enjoyment.

Then when I am done wanting cuttings, I take the sucker back to the ground so I am left with a gorgeous standard.

I hope you can follow me. this is probably more than you ever wanted to know. LOL