Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Have Passiflora "Purple Haze" established cuttings., 1 by JLD_II

JLD_II wrote:
Man I wrote up a huge reply to this thread answering all of these questions and its gone. Hmm.
Well here it is again. This is a link to the mker of Rapid rooter's.
http://www.genhydro.com/genhydro_US/rapidrooter2.html
And here is a link that shows pictures of the hmidity domes that you must have IMO or your cuttings will wilt or damp off before rooting. The tall dome is the 1 you want and is at the lower end of the page.
http://homeharvest.com/propagationflatsdomesinserts.htm
I was only able to find these at the 1 and only hydroponics store around town. I also recomend asking them for a rooting gel rather than using a powder form. It seems most everyone I know has better luck with the gel. My favorite brand is "Clonex Rooting Compound" is runs about 21$ per bottle but lasts a long time. Here is a link showing the bottle and brief description.
http://www.brewngrow.com/site/propagate/htmldocs/clonex.html
The rapid rooter cubes come with a hole already in the middle of them but I find the hole is too big to snugly fit the cuts I put in. I use a small stick or the like and poke a new hole off to 1 side of the provided hole. That way the medium makes full contact with the entire cutting.
I'd also like to explain how I take and prep a cut before putting it in a cube. I usually will pluck off a long vine and take off many seperate 3 noded pieces. This is usually a small vine with 3 leaves, 1 at each node. I remove all foliage from the very bottom node and use a razor blade to make a very clean and long angled cut directly below that node. Then dip that portion in your rooting hormone and place it in the cube about 1 inch deep. I try to never use the end of the vine with a new growth tip on it. I think by leaving the new tip on there, the cut wastes energy on new growth rather than devoting all energy to rooting. Shortly after you see roots, a new growth tip or 2 will emerge from the 2 nodes that you left above the cube.
Here are a few pics of cuts at various stages of the rooting process.
The cuts on the bottom left are about 1 week old and the ones in the 2nd tray to the right are about 3 weeks old and have new growth showing and are ready to be shipping or potted up. In the bottom center are 2 potted uo cuts that are about 1 month old and doing well with new vines growing.