Tropicals & Tender Perennials: How to get started...., 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Well the truth is Polly, take what ever you get to begin with! You usually do not have a choice. So take what is offered and run to your potting shed. LOL.

How lucky Dee is going to share, she has some great brugs!

I prefer above the Y cuttings myself so I can get a general idea of what the bloom is like much faster to see if I even want to grow it. Room here is so tight I must be picky. I find it usually will sucker a great standard in the next year if kept, if I have it in a big enough pot. It may be because I use Epsom salts which cause more shoots of basal canes in roses so I have wondered if that is how I get so many great suckers to make standards out of.

And Polly, no matter where your cutting is from, your first bloom will be such a thrill! General wisdom is you should pick the blooms off cuttings just rooted, but I leave them on to flower. I feel I am so lucky when I get a cutting with the blooming tip intact for they can bloom right away for you. You could easily get a bloom or 2 this year still if you are so lucky to get a few cuttings like that.

Now you will have to show us all your first bloom!

Here is Ludger's gorgeous Dorthea who blessed me with a bloom bigger than itself. I was tickled PINK!! LOL