blue eyes,
I have trumpet vine seeds...I know it can be quite invasive. I have crossvine planted on my fence but just planted it this year...no seeds yet.
Debbie
North Texas RoundUp - Trade page 3
Please save me some crossvine. I just looked it up and it is lovely.
Charlene
P.S. I am going to owe you a lotta lotta. LOL Care for 2 gardenias instead of one?
blue eyes i think i have 2 and 1 for charlene as well. and i guess i did already list the crossvine because i already had you down for one of them kim. oh well. i'm old.
Here is another link to "everyones post for trades".......just to keep it handy.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=3897447
I need to update my list, somethings are not making it.
The only person it will affect is TaRogers, I can't get the Salvia G. to root and the butterfly bushes are looking ill (they have roots so still holding out hope)Sorry these are not working, wanted to let you know incase you really need them and a chance to look for a backup.
Also the snowball viburnum (for Melva) I had listed didn't make it, but I can send hardwood cuttings if needed.
Mamajack I forgot what I wanted from you.
vitex seedlings
catalpa tree seedling
crossvine
Have brug seeds. 1 pkg each of three crosses
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got you tar.
cocoa....if you mean salvia greggii, I always had trouble with this one as well but finally got some to root. I found the trick is taking only very tip cuttings, all green growth. I took these about a month or so ago and checked them over the weekend and there are some roots now. There are 3, all from a dark pink variety, don't know the name.
oh sorry blue-eyes. i meant salvia guaranitica, sapphire blue (i can't spell "Guaranitica" off the top of my head, lol) I've tried about four times this year.I've read through many directions off the salvia forum. I've tried subtle differences each attempt with no luck. Worse yet, I can't find seed off this variety. I just hope my nursery carries it again next year. I love it.
Hope ya'll don't mind my posting this, but I want to be sure I got everyone down right. If I got something wrong or left something off please inform this old memory that is short.
Lonestargirl and Pbtxlady need to have trades from me. Please have a look at my list.
Add spiderwort and duranta and yaupon to my list also. I have plenty of most of them.
Give Recieve
Patrob: 3 Yaupons & dbl pink Althea & tropicana cannas and 2 lantanas to Char:Blue stem , Shasta Daises,Named Daylilies?,Red Stripe Canna & Sw. A. Clematis cuttings
Loonie1: 2 yaupons
TarRoge: Lots of Yaupons Spiderwort toChar:3 Wyoming Cannas &Varigated Ele grass
Frostwed: 4 Yaupons &Duranta spiderwort toChar:4 Mex milkweeds, 2 Turks cap, 2 Fig trees, & Walking onions
Melvatoo: P. Incense & 2 Gardenias toChar: Iris Bulbs, Sw. A. Clematis & Single althea Purple w/red th
Pbtxlady: Alocasia cucullat and tropicana canna lily& spiderwort to char Tropicana Rose & scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue'
Mamaj: Cucullata, 2 gardenias, &Dbl pink althea toChar:Crossvine,cuttings of pur Althea
Stephanietx: pink hardy hibiscus seeds to: Char: Shasta daisy Becky and rock rose
MitchF: 30 Red tips &Small trees to 3 yaupons Char: 2 lg. brugs & some sm brugs
Shelia_: p.incense & Dbl. pink Althea To Char: speedwell, St. Joesph Lillies,2 Turtle vines
Broncb: 2 dw Nandinas toChar: T-posts & Cotton wood trees
Blue eyes: xanadu,lemon slice manihot,&Tropicana canna lily to Char:P.Lady Lavendar, Masked Ball Day lily and Ice Carnival day lily, &Coral Nymph salvia
Lonestargirl: to Char: lady banksia
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Some of the trades are lopsided so please have a look at my lists and choose more. I have loads of the very beautiful Phaison Tropicanna canna lillies to offer. They multiply very quickly and they have georgous foilage.
Charlene, I wanted one of your Tropicanna cannas! Thanks, Patricia
Great patricia, I'll save you a pot full.
I am not worried about doing even trades..I have so many plants now, I refer to it, as my 'plant zoo'
Charlene, I'm not looking for even trades either. Especially since I'm going to have to bring you unrooted rose cuttings!
But, if you have any left over, I would enjoy your Tropicana cannas. Or, I can always use an alocasia.
I feel the same way, I bring my plants to give to people who will enjoy having them.
I must say I will enjoy all of the plants I get. I will also enjoy all the plants that I get to share with others. This is my first experience with this and I feel like a kid in a candy store with all my wants, so I want to be equally generous so as not to get a reputation for being greedy! LOL Plus it is so much fun to know that the little plants that I started off of the mother plants are growing in someone else's garden.
No one in my family wants any of my plants. They either have no time or no place. I have moved to a new town so I don't know too many folks here to trade with and besides they have all lived here for generations and generations forever. I bought my mom's childhood land and people up here go to reunions to meet their future spouses. Just kidding, but it seems that way! lol
The good news is I have found two different antique roses just growing on the side of the road. Now when Melva teaches me how not to rot rose cuttings, I'll get a cutting off of them.
LOL! it will be a cinch to teach you, how to rot. rose cuttings! I do that all the time...
No, no Melva, I said NOT to rot! LOL
charlene....also got you down for coral nymph salvia... and I had down I was getting the lemon slice manihot from you as well as the xanadu. I also would love some of the tropicanna canna.
:) Kim
I missed the word, 'not' but I think I liked mine better. I have yet to figure out rooting...For example...
two weeks ago, I stuck eight cuttings..I checked them, the other day...2 have rooted and the other 6 rotted....so that is only like a 25% sucess rate? But thank goodness, they are not all like that!
i have much better luck rooting things in the spring. is that true of most of us i wonder?
Sounds like that would make a good subject for a new fall or winter thread.
I am pretty new at this, but May and June seem to be my best months for rooting.
Melva, I thought you were going to teach us all how to root roses. 25% beats the heck out of 0% and that's where I stand on rooting roses for now.
Sure...I will show you..I have been rooting stuff all summer...roses and clematis and passion flowers, thunbergias
So far, I have rooted the easy stuff: Althea, duranta, gardenia, angelonia,hibiscus, passion flower, red tip photinia, and two trees. The hardest was the two trees. They were hybrid maples and out of about 25 sticks two rooted. The easiest was the gardenia.
I am just now learning. And to tell you how new I am at this kind of thing, I haven't planted much in the way of seeds when it comes to flowers. I am pretty good at veggies as I have done those quite a bit b4. I usually just bought the flowers in flats, killed'em and bought them again the next year.
I was always amazed at the self sowing ones as I couldn't get any to grow when I planted them I just couldn't beleive that they would have the nerve to come up all on their own when left to fall of the stems on the ground and not be tended.
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I do better with trees and crepe myrtles in winter, cut stems the size of a pencil and bury outside in a pot in sand.. Not the fastest way but the best way I think for trees.
Green stems I can do all summer - IF - I keep them watered twice a day until they root.
oh, please let's have a class on this. i want to hear how everyone is doing it. what they use to root in. are the pots covered? inside or out? rooting powder or not? last year it was so easy to root hib. i just stuck them in a glass of water and in about 2 wks. voila. this year many of them rotted. so i was able to root most of them outside in dirt but i failed as much as i succeeded.
Oh this is a topic I need alot of help on...I can do African violets since my g-ma grew and sold them and I have her notebook on stuff but when it comes to other plants cuttings and rooting them it is harder.
putting things in water works sometimes but not always for me.
I'm really bad at rooting too. I lucked out because this year so much of my stuff could be divided or had offsets. Most of the things I had to root were easy. A few things I had to put in peat & perlite, but most could just go directly in potting soil. I put a couple of things in water.
Last year I tried using the bubbler/peroxide method. Not a single thing in there rooted.
Mitch the best way to keep them watered is to put your containers in a pan of water. I used perlite, dipped sticks in rooting hormone and put them in foam cups or plastic ones with holes in the bottom. The perlite wicks the water up to the plants and you don't have to water as often. Just keep the pan full. When I was out of town for a week, I put a great big roasting pan on a shelf with holes in it just above the rooting cups that were in the pan of water. The pan on top had a hole just a little bigger than a pin hole and it dripped into the other pan and I got back and the cups were still moist.
When I ran out of large cake pans to put my cups in, I lined a cardboard box with heavy poly and used it and it worked just as well.
charlene..................WHAT? you lost me and i really want to get it. say it again ............reeeeeeeeal slow.
Mamajack, I use plastic or foam cups with holes cut in the bottom. I fill them with just perlite. I wet them well. I place a group of them in a cake pan filled with water or some other container that will hold water. I dip my cuttings in rooting hormone. Then I stick several cuttings in each cup. I just make sure that the pan always has plenty of water. I put them in a place where they get light, but no direct sunlight.
Hey, don't forget that I am new at this. I have been very lucky and got a lot of things to root, but I am still learning.
The good thing for me about doing it this way is I can be gone for a long time and leave the cuttings and they are just fine as the water wicks it's way to the plants as needed and with a pan full of water it can go for quite a while.
When I was gone for longer on one occassion, I put a huge roast pan on a shelf with holes in it above the pan of cups and let it drip as it had a tiny hole in it. I am not sure if that was really necessary or not, but all of the cuttings were doing quite well when I got back.
I forgot to mention a great trick that I discovered. At walmart they had some plastic shelves on sell and the shelves had about a 3" edge that was in a downward direction on them. These shelves were solid plastic with no holes. I got the brilliant idea to turn the shelves upside down and use them as "pans" for watering my cups full of cuttings. It worked beautifully. More cuttings in less space!
Good thinking Charlene!
ok popping in with a silly question since I am not going to work today and I am new to the rooting hormone stuff is there a name for this stuff other then hormone? that I would look for at a store?
Since I am going to a dermatologist today for this (*&*^*&^) PI I figure he is going to give me a prescription so I'll be at walmart wasting time for it to get filled why not put time to good use and find this hormone so I cna make sure to get things to root.
Hubby is outside right now spraying (not what I really wanted to do but I can't go out and do a dang thing until it is under control or gone) almost the whole place with brush killer ...he is trying very hard to make sure he stays off of things I want to keep.
it's in the plant section inside. either powder or liquid form. one brand is schultz take root which is a powder. but let's hear from charlene what she uses.
I use Schultz take root. I get it at Wallyworld (walmart).
I use seaweed concentrate to soak the cuttings in before potting and then finish watering with the solution. 1 tablespoon of concentrate to a quart of water, makes an excellent root stimulator. A pint bottle of the concentrate costs 6.95 so it goes a long way.
I learned this from a greenhouse propagator and it works great.
You can find it at nurseries that sell organic products.
Josephine.
Is there a brand name, Josephine?