Noreaster - there is a forum for propagation and it might help with cuttings. I just started some this year for the first time and some are doing well and some not so well and some have been tossed!! I'm basically experimenting this year with what will work and what won't. Eleanor
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Yes, Noreaster - we spend from late October until May in south Florida and summer and part of fall in New Hampshire. Since we fly with the birds, I guess you'd have to say we've become true snowbirds. As I've said on other threads, I'm not the ideal snowbird, because I have great difficulty leaving my plants and family and friends for so long. But - having said that, I love being in a place where we can do our daily walking routine through the winter and some gardening as well. You will be amazed at how easy it is to do cuttings of many flowers. As Janet said, there are many methods of doing the cuttings, but I have really good luck just removing the bottom leaves to expose several nodes and making a hole in damp soil using a pencil. Then I just stick the cutting in the soil, firm the soil up around it and keep it moist. The coleus cuttings and impatiens (probably begonias too) root very easily in water as well. As Eleanor said, the propagation forum is great! Down here in Fla. most shrubs root very easily by just sticking a branch in the ground. We're finding it very economical to do lots of plantings that way.
A Propagation database is in the works. Ideas are being gathered, even as I type, for the new database. It's a "spin-off" of the Wintersowing Database that being "populated" also right now.
There are products out there, like Rooting Hormones, that I've used very successfully for so many things during the summer months. At this point in the "ballgame", I'm doing my best to NOT increase my plants. I have very little space to overwinter things. I did use the rooting hormone on quite a few plants just to experiment this summer and it worked very well. For the most part though, I do like DB and just poke them into the soil and pray a lot. :-)
Janet
These were cuttings I took for the Houston Plant swap this summer.
Janet - they look great. I'm hoping mine are going to make it! Eleanor
I hope come Spring that the ones I took cuttings of are looking good enough to share them. Y'all remind me to keep the water level up. I am the world's worst about watering plants inside of the house.
I'm not so good with the watering thing, either, Janet. And I'm pretty limited on space, too. But begonias seem to be kind of hard to find here (I think these are "rex" Begonias), so I'd like to make them last. I'm really ignorant about them, though...don't even know what a "node" is, lol. I promise I'll figure it out, though, and check out the propagation forum.
I cut, cover with soil, and pray.
It works most of the time.
Front door.
Yikes! I'm glad I got to this thread. It just reminded me that I did some "maintaining" of a potato vine sticking its pretty self into the parking lot where I was shopping today. I pinched it off to save its life and then left it in the cup holder out in my car. Gotta run and get it into some water now! Oh MY!
love the door Victor... cool picture
Thanks Allison. It's magnetic!
I was wondering if it was Victor, thanks for answering that question without having to ask. lol
Oh guys I love the dog pics.... they are the best!!!!!! I will post pics tonight... my mom's hard work!!!!
Yay, Kassia....you're back!!!!! We missed you! How have you been?
Nice door, Victor! Is that your new tile I spy? Lookin' good!
I flew off last night to rescue the wilting potato vine. I thought it was a goner, but I put it in a vase of water anyway, and today it is looking pretty perky!
Kassia - you've been away much too long and we've missed you!! Glad you're back at the computer and posting messages!! Eleanor
Love your door Victor! And Janet, I also adore your use of coleus for the holidays vs poinsettias. Very festive and practical. Kudos!
Thank you. They are still doing good. I watered them all last night. I'm glad that most of the vases are clear glass so I can tell when they need to have some water added.
Victor:
That's a great door!
Thanks ladies!
You are welcome, Victor.
Now, everyone come on over to the new thread that Thom began for us ...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/795581/