Hello -
I have taken cuttings of coleus before, but am interested in also taking cuttings of other plants like sweet potato vine and vinca vine. Can I just cut a segment and root in water or dirt? Is it better to try to dig up the rootball, trim off most of the stems, and try to keep it? I do not have that much natural light in winter and would like to try just keeping a few of these things alive on a windowsill till they can be potted up in spring.
If anyone has other types of container plants that are easy to propagate over the winter, would love to hear suggestions.
Thanks for your help!
Taking cuttings for next spring?
you can cut sections 5 inches or longer and root them in water (of the spv); i have also rooted them in soil; as for vinca....i haven't rooted them....but they should come back? ?
i have found that rooting plants over the winter produces stronger plants for spring...but i have also brought in the whole plant to keep cause space wasnt an issue:)
"cause space wasnt an issue:)" - Ohhhh, I'm so jealous...that I could say that...
well, it probably SHOULD be an issue....but is FAST becoming an issue.....cause i wont stop gathering gathering gathering....(but not yet:)
LOL...believe me when i say....I understand :)
Great thread. Wish more people would say what they're trying to root for next year.
So far I have a lot of coleus started but was glad to hear about the SPV. I tried with Helichrysum but it doesn't look happy. Has anyone tried Torenia?
pirl...i wonder if the Helichrysum would benefit from a plastic baggie??...not even sure what Helichrysum is but will go look it up;
as far as torenia.....heck i can't even grow it ...i would love to root it..(g)
pirl...it sez in the link that the 'h' plant can only be grown from seed??
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/750/
Phooey! It's a display plant out there! Maybe I'll try it in the closed cabinet in the garage.
I love Torenia!!!!!
I did hold over (just barely) that exotic impatiens last year and it's wonderful! I've taken cuttings already. The other one that looks good is (brain went blank) small green leaves, white dots, fairly low, funny name. (cuttings look good)
polkadot plant?
I think it starts with an F. I wouldn't have any idea of the common name since this is the first year I tried it but it's grand with the Patriot and Revolution (or maybe that was Minuteman) hosta along with the hosta rohdeifolia. Great! I can remember rohdeifolia but not this little plant! Brain drain.
YES! I Googled it and it's Hypostes (big long word). Thanks! It seems to have rooted so easily and so fast. I guess F was wrong!
pirl i so love that plant....; did you know that they are grown as house plants also?? so i just bring mine in every winter.....i SO love them
I didn't know that. It's such a clean looking plant - no faults as far as I can see.
do you have it in all 3 colors?
Just the green and white but next spring I'd be very tempted to buy the others as well.
if i end up with cuttings do you want some? i am thinking that i might have some;
You're sweet and I thank you but I'm way overloaded already. This was supposed to be the year I was cutting back on houseplants.
:)
I don't have any space either. Originally I put a set of wire shelves in front of my sliding glass doors in the kitchen, but it made sitting at the table cramped. Next I tried the basement with growing lights but the shelf unit was too tall (very low basement ceiling). Now it is in the bedroom with the lights coming on at 6:00am and going off at 9:00pm. I rooted coleus, geraniums, petunias, spv, and bacopa. I've lost some but the rest are doing well and I just put them in larger pots. The spv doesn't look good on top and I was going to toss them but they had lots of roots so I saved and I'll see what happens. I also brought in some plants and cut them way back - tricolor spv, geraniums, vinca vine (think that's what it is), and some creeping thyme seedlings that I had planted outside. It's the first year I've done this so it's all experimentation!! Eleanor
Here is a pic of the shelves - cost about $200.00 for shelves and the three double lights. That's a lot less that a regular plant shelf. I don't have a light on the bottom shelf yet cause I don't need that shelf - will put a light there when I plant seeds in the spring. Eleanor
Eleanor,
Very impressive. Last year I had a magnificent container with green SPV, black SPV and a big magilla perilla in the middle. Not terribly inspired but it was my first foliage experiment and I was impressed. So I gave it a major crew cut and brought the whole thing inside to languish with my other houseplants. Everyone died by the spring except that sturdy green SPV. Now I never rooted it, I just moved the pot in and out. But this year I'm going to have a serious chat with DH about houseplants and how much he loves the tropical look of the patio with the elephant ears and he should move aside a few of the speakers that don't work and the instruments he's going to take up some day and make a little room for PLANTS!
After spending so much $$ on callibrochoa, I'm going to try to make my favorite colors last inside. I have a perfect picture to post but I can't find it!!! Agh!!! This is as bad as if I had a huge pile of snapshots to organize! (Which I do, btw.)
Well, ok, here's everyone very happy in the SHADE but feeling winter in the air.
xx, Carrie
Last year I took in a banana, some EEs, fuschias etc. and put them in a north facing spare bedroom. Just grouped the plants next to the windows.. Most of the plants survived althought they were very haggard by the end of the winter. I was surprised that even with this little light they were able to hang on until spring time.
Here is a photo from this year (Plants brought in last weekend):
And the other table...
We have no spare bedroom. : ( we have a few spare children, who will vacate bedrooms as they leave for their new homes!
X,C
Question has anyone tried to root pentas? I have this really neat Stars and Stripes penta and would like to save it as it was hard to find.
Pentas, at least the common ones, root very easily here. I stick them in water with the impatients as I break them off.