Need help!!! Stuck a bunch of cuttings in water months ago - changed the water weekly. All developed a good root system so I planted them up = and there they sit - haven't done diddley since and it's been over a month. What do I do next??? No green stuff at all!!!!! Any ideas???? If I have lost them, I will be reallyyyyyyy sad.
puzzling problem....
You mean they grew roots but no leaves ? Wish I could help but I'm a newbie too, it will be interesting to see what the experts say. Good luck :)
Give them time. It could be that the node that is going to produce the next plant, is way down under the soil line and it will take time to get the plant up to the light. I hope there were leaf nodes. The lack of them would be the only thing that I can think of that might cause the cutting to not have new growth.
I'm not sure why I'm asking this but what is the size of the cuttings and how many are there and are they all the same brug??
They were about eight inches tall and were a variety of kinds.
I'll keep watching them - hopefully they are just waiting for spring!!! Thanks for the help everyone!!
Brugie, We must have been on the same train, going the same way. That was my first thought. Did they have nodes??
Jeanette
I also got rooots and nodes, I planted them up and gave them some sun and artificial light and next thing was Leaves. Good luck, i am sure you will get leaves.
Are your rooted cuttings getting enough light?
I'll bet they will put leaves on, given time. If they don't, since there is a variety of cuttings, I'd suspect that it was something done to all of them, maybe the potting soil or accidental spraying or, like Ada said, maybe they need light...
They have plenty of light - under grow lights. Just puzzling as I have never had this happen before. I do have quite a crop of fungas gnats - could that affect them?
Hmmm those gnats usually are after decaying organic material or just enjoy a moist soil to lay eggs in. You might want to pull up one of the cuttings and check out the root system see how it looks.
Just a question too you and I don't mean to make you sound silly or anything. Could you have possibly rooted the cuttings upside down? Just a thought and I have done it before....
gardenguy - no the roots were from the bottom and the stalk was sticking up really high! Some had little green nubs starting, but those dried up. I will pull one and check on the roots - although it will kill me to do that!!
Last fall when brugie sent me some cuttings most of them rooted and grew leaves very rapidly. I have one though that is just now putting on a leaf after almost 5 months. I had almost given up on the thing about 10 times and just kept figuring as long as it didn't look like it was dead that I was going to leave it alone.
I would say just leave it and see what happens, as long as it looks okay.
sobbbbbbbb- I pulled three of them up - the stems were completely dried and hollow - thru them in the trash. Will take a look at the rest tomorrow. Oh how sad.... I still don't understand what happend....the roots WERE so nice and healthy...
Sounds like it was pot luck for the fungus gnat larva, maybe. They love to chow down on new roots.
Thanks Brugie - I am carrying around my can of Raid now - gonna spray anything that I see flying around.
Would it be possible to start some more brugs off the ones I have that are dormant? Just whack off a piece and put it in water? I am just incredibly sick about this...
It's surely worth a try. I'm so sorry you lost them, maybe some of the others are okay...
sarv48
Wish I had something to share with you....as I've said before, I literally cry when anything living dies.
(yes, that includes spiders.) LOL
I, too hope that some are still ok. Don't give up, just start again . (I used to drown mine, but I am reformed.)
Jackie
You could try putting them in soil much deeper than they are right now and see if something will happen. You are only out time trying. I probably would try.
How sad. Are they all rotted? So all the stems above the soil were hollow and dried? Do the others look like that? Sometimes, the top rots but the cutting puts up a shoot from the roots. This has happened a few times to me on ones I was too lazy to toss when they looked dead.
Where are your dormant ones? How cold are you keeping them?
So sarv48, do you collect bakelite by any chance? Your name reminds me of a buyer of bakelite on ebay 2 years ago!
I tossed 5 - still have 3 that are actually growing. The five I tossed were completely hollow and dried out - not mushy at all.
I have 15 dormant ones in an unheated bedroom - I usually lose a few of those also - seems like they get too dry. I worry so about watering them too much, but often to the opposite!!
Kell -I've never even heard of bakelike!! And have never sold or bought on ebay. That's a vise I haven't gotten into yet! LOL
I didn't know we were supposed to wait for roots. I just waited for little white nodes to appear and then put them in soil. Most of mine made it that way. Is it best to wait for actual roots to appear before putting in pots? I lost a few and maybe this is why? Seems to me they get mushy if left in water too long.