Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Falland Cleaning up Your Garden...What are YOU doing??, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
doc----

I do not understand the "upside down" thing if there is a "Y" at the bottom????? The "bottom" to me is what was there first! Then the new straight growths come from that. How can that be "upside down"????????

I have rooted many cuttings where there is a "Y" at the bottom. I stick it into the soil and wait.....I usually discard any straight, 4 or more, sections that may break off.
Of course--I am NOT all that serious about any of this. Heaven help me if i was......

I DO keep all that you are telling me tucked into the back of my, upside down, brain.....:o)

Gita

Here's one of my X-Mas cactusses after I brought them in blooming away.....