Top 10 Easiest to Grow from Cuttings

They really are awsome links.. . alot of great info!! THANKS A BUNCH!

So welcome!

I want to bump this thread as a refresher & to get any new updates!!!

This is a great thread. I went back and reread the whole thing!

Most things will root. The thing is to just try it.......Most of what I have has already been mentioned.

Good luck with your efforts! I have some Jasmine cuttings in water that I need to check on. They probably need more water!

Jeanne

OMGosh, it's been over 9 years since I started this thread! I've just been reading it all through, and I'm amazed how it has flourished and grown. How fun! - Karla

Wow, so what have you learned in the past 9 years, do tell!

What I have learned......ALL OF THE ABOVE! LOL! What about you?

Happy Holidays Everyone, esp. Karla!

Jeanne

What a great thread! plantaholic186,,,I have that same azelea..can you give more details on how to do the azeleas? Nobody has mentioned Tall garden phlox and how that is done and when is best time. Let's hear from the Tall Garden phlox gardeners.

Pippi21 I only have one of them and have been trying to get rid of it for years. I love them but this one just isn't very pretty. However, I just can't seem to get all the root out. I think it is in a place with very poor soil. I have been adding compost etc. but in my sand the additions just disappear.

I think you almost have to start them with a piece of the root.

You all have really got me looking forward to spring and summer so I can try my hand at taking cuttings. How long will it take for a cutting of Hydrangea to get to good size where I can take it to a plant swap and give away? Like in May? I have 8 or 9 mature hydrangeas on the side of my house.

Usually with any plant in general you only need about six inches. You want to cut it just below a node....a little bump or growth where the plant put out the new growth.

Dip it in rooting mixture and stick it in the dirt.

You can put them in water. Be sure to refreshen the water a couple of times a week. My past experience as far as I can remember it was several weeks. You would have to read thru this thread....I'm sure it mentions somewhere. Some people have had things root in water pretty quickly....but that's just not my experience. I would give it at least two mos.

Last September I cut off basil and some smaller tomatoes at about 6-8" and some stivia about 10' then put each in water they all took off and rooted well. Now all are growing in my window seat. Could have a couple tomatoes ready shortly, have snipped basil since Christmass and the stivia will be nice sized plants for spring planting and have snitched a few leaves too.

Westie, Good for you!! What growing conditions did you have them in over the winter? I.e. light, heat, etc.


edited to add: What kind of tomatoes are they? Hybrid or heirloom? And, did you use lights on them, and if so, what kind?

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I see some familiar faces on here and I have gone back to the beginning to review what you all start from cuttings. I may have missed it and forgive me if I have, but I want to cut some camellias, not the kind that grow outside, mine are potted. Has anyone ever tried to start them from cuttings? Thanks in advance. JB

JB, Look here and it should help. One of the posters up above posted it. : )

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8702.html

Thanks Jen, that is very good information and I did not see that particular one before. In the research I have been doing there was mentioned of one way was to use a " propagator box". I guess my question should have been, " Has anyone been successful in propagating Camellias and if so, what method did they use?". I had never heard of the "box" before and although it is described, I am curious to hear from someone who has actually had success using what methods. JB

Where did you hear of the propagator box? I don't know what it is. Would love to see it.

Jen, See if you can get this link to work and it is mentioned under cuttings. It describes how to make them, etc.

http:www.camellia-ics.org/culture/propagat.htm

This is really good information. I found it in Feb. of this year.

comes back "not found".

It is a paper by Klaus Peper, called Camellia Propagation. I will see if I can find it when I have time today. I print them out and then I do not clutter up my bookmarks. I will get back to you later. JB

I tried a lot of combination and the only time I got a response was to drop everything past camellia. But that didn't tell me anything about boxes.

I just looked up camellia propagation and this is what I have found

http://camellia-ics.org/_ics/culture/propagat.htm

I had the same problem when I went to the site. I hope this one works for you.

That is the one, and had not been so tired when i wrote the link, I would have done it properly. I am sorry. I was having vision problems yesterday because of straining my eye to fix my sewing machine. I finally put it away and gave up. That is when I misled you Jen. Sorry. Please forgive me..........Please, Please, Please. JB

My husband likes to pick up the large blueberry muffins from the grocery store and they come in clear plastic 4-packs with a snap down lid. When empty, I fill each compartment with potting mix and put my rootings in, moisten, and snap the lid down. They work pretty well as a small "hothouse"! I have fairly good success rooting my cuttings in those - have even gotten a couple of camellias to root this way. I do not have much luck with camellias, though, because I don't really know what I'm doing, it's all trial and error and most of mine die. But I'm going to keep trying.

Do you try different parts of the plant? Like maybe fresh/new growth, some of that and then maybe a little farther down the stem to firmer wood? Might try different types of cuttings.

The trick with camellia cuttings is to make sure you have a growth bud. I had a man show me cuttings that he used and they only had 1 leaf and a short piece of stem. I was amazed, but he had acres upon acres of camellias and azaleas rooting. He was somewhere over toward orangeburg.

Oh my, now I have to learn what a growth bud looks like. Help Ibartoo. Draw me a picture.
I think there is a picture on one of those papers we printed out. Maybe. LOL I can not wait to try but I am still worried I will hurt the blooming for this year. It already bloomed once but it looks like it is growing now.

I read somewhere you can cut them anytime, but summer is best. Is that right Ibartoo?

Put it on here Linda 'cause I want to know too.

As soon as I get my computer online again, I will post pics for you both. ( mine still isn't completely restored). A growth bud is basically a bud that will grow into a new leaf at the joint of the older leaves and stems.

I have really only taken cuttings during the summer months so I don't know about cutting them anytime. One of the men who taught me about them said that july and august were the only times to cut them. Others have told me that as long as the cutting isn't brand new wood, it should be ok.

If I can get Burk to set up my propagator today, I will cut some and try several different ways. ( heaven help me, I love experiments!) In the meantime, i will look to see if I can find other info for you.

sea ya.

Linda, thanks so much for the info. How is your weather. Ours is a mess today. Cold and windy. Wind coming off the cold ocean makes it worse. Talk later. Have a doctor appt. today that I need to get over. JB

I will have to go and look at the info on camelias also. I picked a camelia from the plant in the back yard. It had a bud under the flower so my Mom put it in water hoping the bud would open up, and maybe it will take root.......hopefully it will. If so I will take cuttings from my other plant as well. One is pink and one is red. I do not remember the names of them. I have had them for years but they are only about 2 1/2 ft tall. They are close to the banana trees so in the summer they don't get much sun.

I will have to call Mom and see if it has rooted yet! Cool!

Jeanne

Jeanne, my uncle told me once that he rooted camellias in water, but I have never been successful with them in water. Hope it works for you.
Yeah, it doesn't help that they are slow growing plants.

ibartoo,
That would be great if it does! Mom has a green thumb....I just use Miracle Grow...haha.

My friend has a camelia that is over 40 yrs old. They planted it in their front yard when they moved into their house. It must be over 6 ft tall and huge around. It's much taller than me. It is in full bloom. It is soooooooooo pretty. It gets alot of sun. It is just beautiful!
Jeanne

Soooo much good info here. There's several plants I am going to try to root that I hadn't thought about rooting. I have about 50% luck with my propagtion--so as a retired teacher I guess that's flunking! :)
My Question: I have a couple of Royal Pelargoniums that are way over grown in my house. I know new growth ends root better, but how successful is rooting 10 inches from the tip??
After reading this thread, I believe I am going to try the soda bottle method with half perlite and half sand. I really want these to root.

Whatever takes is an "A+". You have to treat each one indivually! HAHA! It's something gained!

I don't know about that species but it is worth a try. It doesn't hurt the plant, so why not?

I think it's great. It's like getting a free plant!

Birder, aren't they like geraniums? If so, I will tell you a friend of mine just takes a half a dozen or whatever amount of cuttings, she takes them right off the main trunk, not sure what you all are calling them, and then she just sticks them all in a 6" pot together and lets them go. Don't know why it is, but that always works for her, and I can baby things and lose them. Oh well.

Jeanette: They are a type called Martha Washington Geraniums. I think they are usually grown as houseplants.

Birder, that is good. They should work. I was looking for a post earlier I thought Linda, Ibartoo, had tallked about it, it is where you take it right off the main trunk and kind of get some of the trunk with it.

I bet one of the others can describe it better than I can. Anyway, that is what this friend did. And they rooted and bloomed in that pot every time. Now I watched her do it. But, she had them in my sister's greenhouse. So, maybe you would want t put a bag over them or something.

I think I will try a soda bottle. I think it would make it a mini greenhouse. Do you think I should put it in my heated upstairs or in the unheated downstairs garage?

Hard for me to say, not knowing anything about the temps or light. I would say where it warm but not to warm and light. If it is too warm they might rot before they root.

Maybe there is someone on here that knows better than I do.