Hi all.
I recently received 2 beautiful cuttings of a variegated Brug from a kind DG member.
I have these cuttings in water with some other brug cuttings.
The 'other' cuttings are rooting nicely, but these variegated ones just aren't doing anything!
One of them had begun to rot at the bottom, so I cut off that portion, and placed it back in the water. Now the cutting is molding on the stem (no new rot, but no roots, either.) the other one hasn't rotted at all, but is shrivelling at the top, and also has no sign of roots!
The other variegated cutting is shrivelling and 'hardening' at the top, as well.
Should I try rooting these in soil?
Any advice appreciated, TIA!!
Rooting a Variegated Brug
why not cut off a good section and lay it on top of soil, I think they call it air layering, I have had good success with this methode
Doesn't look good Nan! Eveyone has their own way but this is what I would do.
I would cut off all rotting and shriveling parts. Get some well draining soil. Put it in the smallest container that well work. The less wet soil around it the better. I would dust it lightly, the entire cutting and the top and bottom cut, with rooting hormone. It has an anti fungal in it. But do it very lightly.
Wet the fast draining soil in the container. Take a pencil and make a hole in it that will accommodate the diameter of the cutting. Put it in. Press the damp soil tightly around it. DO NOT WATER! And do not water again until the soil has just gotten dry.
Place the cutting in bright indirect light.
You can try Kareoke's method also. Just lie it on its side in wet but not dripping, fast draining soil. Press it into the soil but keep the top half of the cutting fully exposed. Again only water when the soil has just dried.
Actually Kareoke, I think air layering is when you root the cutting before you cut it off the mother plant.
Thanks kell, I am still learning, didn't know what you call it but I have done it with a cutting that did not get roots and it's doing good
Update:
I lost one of the cuttings to rot.
Didn't have time or soil available to try rooting in soil, after all, but had remembered reading that many plants will root easier with a 'willow' (Salix) cutting placed in the water.
We happen to have a pussy willow out near the back deck, so I decided to give it a shot, and tore off a small branch, placed it in the water with the remaining cutting.
Don't know if it's coincidence, or ???....but that cutting had roots in 5 days!
I potted it about 2 weeks later (and it had roots about 4" long) and it's now growing and leafing out nicely! woohoo!!
Anyone else ever try this?
I've heard that. Don't know what is in the willows but that, supposedly, is what they are good for. Jeanette