Please can anyone advise on the best way to grow Clematis from cuttings. Mine all seem to rot and get bothrytis before any roots form no matter which method I us. I'm interested in finding what I'm doing wrong. I do manage to get some Montana cuttings to grow but even they seem to be difficult. Is there a secret or trick to get the more fancy ones to root?
Thanks for any help or advice anyone can offer.
Terri (in UK)
Clematis from cuttings??
Greetings Terri - So funny that you ask this question. It is the exact question that I have too. Yesterday I cut several slips from one of my clematis. All I did was stick in some water. I too have tried unsuccessfully to get some roots started.
I hope that someone will come along and post so that we can begin doing something that will bring us success.
Aren't clematis wonderful?
Ruby
Hi Ruby!
It's great to know that I'm not completely alone in this. I feel such a fool because I can usually get most things to grow for me...but Clematis seem to be the most difficult of all plants to get started from cuttings. I've tried rooting compounds and even taken a 'head gardener's' advice and tried rooting in sharp sand, all have been failures and I'm getting 'el desperado', LOL
Perhaps we can share our experiences once we get some 'know how'???
Have a lovely day :o)
Terri
Sure. Are there other forums that you post to? I spend most of my time in the Mid Atlantic Gardening group. I was given the opportunty to meet up with a group that met for a plant swap this past June. The same group and maybe some others will be meeting again in September. It was really fun the ffirst time and I hope that the second meeting will be as much fun again. I also came home with a lot of plants that I didn't have before. Some are doing well and some are not doing so great.
Well, I will keep an eye out for responses to your question and hope to talk with you again. I hope that you are having a good day.
Ruby
Have you tried air layering? I have done it with grape vines and wisteria.
Layering is the easiest way..just take a vine and lay on the soil..find the leaf axil and bury it under soil using a pen to hold it down..remember to water it and check about 3 months later..if it has roots cut away from the momma plant and pot up...Jeanne
I found this article a while back when I was wondering the same thing.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~JN7H-OONM/contents/cuttings_e.html
I did as instructed, but then gave it away, so I don't know if it successfully rooted or not. I do know that it was still perky and green after about two weeks. I used peat moss and some rooting hormone.
Thank you digi. I will check it out.
Ruby
Alright. I checked on it. It looks simple enough. Did you try this method digi?
Ruby
Yes, I did do it, but I only had it for about a week or two before I gave it away. So I don't know if it successfully rooted or not. The cutting stayed perky and green the whole time I had it though, so it seemed to be living, at least.
I try to propagate, all kinds of things....partly because things tend to break and I have a lot of plant material, I hate to throw viable stuff away.
I had a piece of Lady Diana that I stuck in a pot, a couple of weeks ago..today it looked dead so I took it out of the pot, and it had green at the leaf node, so i quickly replanted it again, hope I didn't kill it!
And my Tang. Golden Harvest, a piece of it rooted, fast! and now it is gtowing. I am starting to get an inkling, of how 'successful' this plant can be.....
On the other hand, my Lemon Bells refused, to even think about rooting.
Thanks melvatoo. So, even though it may take forever, a clipping will eventually root in water? I hope so, or should I take the rootless cutting and stick in a pot and see what it does? Thanks for the info.
Ruby
I have never tried water..I think putting them into soil works better...it is hard sometimes when they root in water, to make the transition to dirt..I have seen that with other plants.
Gotcha. Thanks so much. Will pot my cutting soon then.
Ruby