July 12, 2010
Rooting Cuttings – A Gardening Experience
Last spring I made some cuttings of Hoya Carnosa and put them in a glass of soft water in a south window. They are still there (November); some have bloomed several times this past summer and are budded now. The same flower spur has put out beds several times as is their habit. The cuttings have had no fertilizer, just cistern water; in fact they have bloomed more than my potted plant.
Hoya cuttings root very _easily and surely in water, just a stem with a leaf joint toward the top of cutting. Roots form on the internodes. A leaf will form a plant if it has a part of the stem containing the leaf node or joint on it also. Just a leaf will make roots and live indefinitely, but will never send up a shoot to form a new plant.
I have had very good success this year rooting various house plant cuttings (Begonia, Fushia, etc.) in a medium of very old rotted sawdust and coarse sand. I use a granite pan with drainage. They seem to root as quickly in this, not covered over, as with glass over them. The pan sits in a south window, inside. Many flower folk, now use rootone to dust ends of cuttings to promote root formation, using any medium they choose (water, sand, peat, soil or combinations) and report good-results.
I’m watering my house plants with quite hot soft water this winter and they seem to like it very much. This is especially recommended for African Violets and my more than one hundred Begonias seem just as happy with the same treatment, which also seems to be getting rid of the black flies that are pestering me, as a result, I suppose, of using pure oak leaf mold for Begonias and African Violets this winter.
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