Tropicals & Tender Perennials: HELP! ID a Passiflora Problem, 1 by JLD_II
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JLD_II wrote: Dennis, Thanks so much for all your input and offering a replacement if need be. So you sell seedlings online and retail? That is very cool and something I've been entertaining on a very small scale. I can't imagine all the time it must take starting all of these from seed to sale. Do you do any cloning/rooting cuts? I've been cloning Passion flowers and many many other plants from proven parents for years with great success. Now that I stumbled across a rooting cube called "Rapid Rooter's", man I'm having 99-100% success rates for the 1st time. I take cuttings that are only 3 nodes long. I strip the leaves off the bottom node, make my razor cut just below it and dip it in "clonex" rooting gel. Here is a picture of 2 hardy hibiscus cuts almost 3 weeks after making them and ready to transplant. I would think that could save you tons of time with your selling plus you'd be selling a proven product with out the variations that can come from seedlings. I can fit about 40 cuttings this size per flat then I have enough to fill our flowerbeds and gain major favors from nieghbor's and friends. Do you have a website or any info about your operation? I would really like to see it as I've been entertaining the idea of selling clones/cuttings via Ebay. For some reason, I'm a little intimidated to open up shop and I don't know why. Man I can't imagine all the work your having to do dealing with well water! And I complain about the 8.3PH of our city tap water and dealing with it. LOL Check out another new Passie I lucked into via another trade here. http://mpeixoto.sites.uol.com.br/passif/loefgrenii-corupa.ht... I have 2 of them now and I'm told they're quite rare. Right now I'm starting to pannick as Summer has "officially" ended and I need to find a place for all my new plants to winter. I'm gonna set up a 1000watt growlamp and see how many I can cram under it, Lord I hope I can get most of them under it. Things are truly out of control with out a greenhouse and all these new tropicals. Mark, I'm going to isolate this plant just incase your right and take as many back up cuttings as I can off the rest of the plant. Thanks to you both for your help;) Jeff |


