to any of my fellow Texans. I am trying to root some dusty miller.
Can anyone tell me how to do this? I've had this plant for 4 yrs and it keeps coming back each year. HELP!!! There must be a way. The blooms are yellow but I can not detect any seeds. Thanks, alday
rooting dusty miller cuttings
Yellow flowers. Centaurea cineraria, dusty miller. Zones 8 thru 10, roots and little rhizomes division. Soak in Fall to 5"depth, the ground around the plant. Deep slow soak. Then spade or trowel to 4" and these can be seperated safely. Repot to a depth of just the foliage line, and water, rewater deep water 2" in a few days and taper back slow watering after a week.
For cuttings, take about 6" cutting. Strip off most of the leaves leaving 3-4 at the very top. Wet the stem with water and dip in rooting powder. Use a pencil to make a hole in the potting soil and stick the cutting in the hole without knocking off the rooting powder. Start in a small pot like 2"X2" and keep moist, not soggy (water from the bottom and discard any water not asorbed by the pot of soil.) A clear plastic cover of some kind can keep the cutting from drying out while it grows a root to take in water. Rooting from cuttings is even more successful if you catch the plant just beginning to put out new growth in the spring.
when you see new baby leaves budding out, continue to treat like cuttings until you see roots coming out of the bottom holes in the pot. Then you may up-pot to larger pot or plant outdoors.