Does it help to insure a successful plant if you use rooting hormone? I have some brugs coming and want to be successful with them after spending the money.
Rooting hormone and brugs
I've never used it as most cuttings root easily. Hydrogen peroxide helps keep the water clean and seems to help in rooting. I am tempted to try rooting hormone on a cutting that seems determined not to root, but the cutting is too short to cut in half. Recently, I bought a cutting of Sassy Lady, have had it in water for almost two weeks and still no nubs even. Fortunately, not rot either.
So perhaps use hormone as last resort when cutting seems to be stubborn?
Yes, because it's usually not needed.
OK thanks. I do not want to waste the rooting hormone but when my cuttings get here I do not want to waste them either. It will be my first brugs and I want so much for them to root and grow so I can put them outside in the spring. There is so much information here that I reach the mental saturation point and have to quit then come back and reread things. You folks are really great the way you help and advise everyone.
For me anyway..
it depends on what time of yr it is.. Spring~Summer you can dip them in RH pot them up and stick them in the shade ..it is alot easier than messing with cuttings in water.. In Fall and Winter I do root in water but I use a bucket and an air stone so I don't have to change jars of water everyday..H2O2 is very helpful in keeping the water clear.
What works for one may not work for another...LOL There is a ton of info out here ..You will find what works best for you by giving it a try...Congrats on your new cuttings!
Kylie
Kylie, thanks. I have been into tropical fish for a number of years so I have bubblers and pumps. I will use that method. I have been reading and drooling over everything brugs and am anxious to grow some of these beauties.
I've tried it when I've air layered, and tried it on a few cuttings that I rooted in well drained potting soil with extra perlite. I can't say it helped or hurt. Seem to have the same level of success with rooting in water. I don't think it's very expensive though, so I might be inclined to try it on harder to root plants.
Whether something is expensive is directly related to when you will have money to replace it. I just got word two weeks ago that I would be laid off in a week. Yeah that means I am unemployed now til end of January. Thanks for the notice and Merry Christmas to the corporate giants. I do have some rooting hormone. A little goes such a long way. I thought it was a lot of money for such a little container til I started using it. It is very cheap to use. Most folks seem to feel brugs root fairly well on their own so I will give that a try. If I notice rot then I may cut the ends and do the hormone thing as a last resort.
So sorry to hear about you being laid off. Tough times for so many. They're starting to cut back at my place too, but so far I've escaped the cuts. We're being cautious with our spending "just in case".
You're right the little bit of rooting hormone goes a long, long way. I know I've had the same container for a few years. I wonder if it goes bad.
TY Mary. Yes there is a lot of it going around and so many employers have the whole thing down to a science that many folks are like me and do not even qualify for unemployment checks. Been thru hard times before and always made it. The cool thing is I sent the money for brug cuttings before I knew I was going to lose my job. If it had happened a week later I would have said I could not afford the postage. So I have new brug cuttings to watch and I have the time to watch them. It is all good.
Kathy I am sorry to hear about being laid off.. .I am glad you got the cuttings before you found out..Which ones did you get?
Kylie
I have a pink noid and a white noid, and A salmon perfektion double. It is hard to believe these skinny shriveled up green twigs will become those magnificent plants but if the acorn can become the might oak then I will watch a beautiful thing happen here.