Carolina Gardening: Help: ? Planting Seasons for Columbia SC ?, 1 by Xeramtheum

Xeramtheum wrote:
Love your pink mandevilla! I just take 6 inch cuttings from my mandevilla, cut just below a leaf node, strip off the leaves on the bottom and stick them in some dirt to a depth of about an half inch to inch below the next set of leaves and add a cloche made out of a 2ltr. soda bottle. I stick it in a shady place. Takes a month or so for roots to appear. Sometimes I use rooting hormone and other times I don't. There is no difference time wise or health wise between the two that I can see.

When I want to do a lot of cuttings at once I use a window box.

You'd also be a good candidate for winter sowing.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/coldsow/all/

It's so easy it's dangerous. Somehow those seeds KNOW when it's safe to crack and solves your stratification problem

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