Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Brug rooting threads, links or information please?, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
If you are going to root in buckets, pumps do help, a lot. They add oxygen to the water and speed rooting. I know people who keep large cuttings in buckets all Winter and do OK and I have done so myself but large roots that grow in water are different than roots the develop in soil, so most will die back and have to regrow. It is best to keep in bucket with H2O2 and have a pump and then plant in soil as soon as you start seeing roots forming.

Like cperdue, I root most of my cuttings in light soil in large 6-pack, for cuttings as large as my little finger and 4in. pot for ones as big as my thumb. I do not water until they dry out some, the larger the pot, the longer it stays wet and the chance they will rots. I usually root only hardwood cuttings but there are times when you must root a newer Brug that does not have any hardwood. As soon as they start getting leaves, I start spraying with the recipe and when they are small plants i switch to Osmocote 18-6-12. Understand that if you are rooting, you want the plant to grow. If you are rooting in the Winter time, that is tough. Plants do not like to root in dormant conditions. Most years I have around a 90% success rate, then came last Winter, very cold and wet, I rooted about 20%. This was in a greenhouse where I could not keep it warm enough to dry thing out and promote rooting.

Picture is of large cuttings in 6-packs;


This message was edited Dec 23, 2010 9:22 PM