Rooting Database - FYI

For anyone interested in rooting cuttings, here's a great site.

"http://telework.ucdavis.edu/root/pchome.htm

Bloomer

Thanks, Bloomer! Davis U. has some great information at their site. :)

Terri

Thanx Bloome!
Sayre

Can anyone please tell me how to get a start off a hibiscus and a fusia?

pukie, I don't know about hibiscus but fuscias are easily started from soft wood cuttings. Just keep the soil damp and in a shady spot.

pukie... I just rooted some cuttings of fuscia... NO problems! Take a cutting near a tip and take off all but 2 leaves, and stick it in some damp soil... nothing else required!

I had a fuscia I had overwintered inside which had put out very long runners. I cut them back to about 10" and rooted the tips I had cut off. After 2 weeks, all seem to have survived. Nothing added but watering, and being in the shade, as Zanymuse suggested. Never thought it would be this easy!

BTW, I tried rooting several shrubs last year and was VERY unsuccessful, so glad for this propagation forum!

This message was edited Sunday, Jun 10th 11:44 PM

Rooting hibiscus is similar to the fuchsia. It just takes longer to get them rooted. I take a snip off the end, remove most of the leaves and all flower buds, dip in rooting hormone and put in moist soil. Then I cover with a plastic bag and keep in the shade for at least 1 month before checking for growth. Then gently dig down by plant and see if there are roots. If you tug slightly on stem and it resists, it probably is rooted.