Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Do you root cuttings of your tropical milkweed?, 0 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
Wow, making me feel older looking at this thread from 8 years ago!
I was just starting out with raising MW and Monarch cats. Since the topic was do you root cuttings of MW I need to say yes! I do as the others did, save the striped stems and stick them into wet soil under a grow light. Then you will loose some but most will root easily.
Here is the set up I used when I purchased plants that had been sprayed. They were two cheap and huge to pass on so I bought two full 4 foot tall A. curassavica plants for $12 ea!

I took them home planted them and cut off all of the stems to about 6or 8" and netted them to keep Monarchs from laying eggs on them. The stems were then washed in soapy water and cut in 6" lengths. After which I used large pots sitting in trays to keep them wet. When they got roots they went in four inch pots. This is after they began growing again. They weren't pretty plants, but I knew after planting they would return to normal the next spring.