#cuttings

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[urbansoulfarmer]

Lemon verbena cuttings .

[balkanradfem]

So, some of you might remember, how I found an abandoned 'banished settlement' where people used to live 20 years ago, and they left plenty of cultivated and edible plants behind, including one huge rose plant. It was spread more than 10 meters in both directions, made thousands of roses, I used to decorate my entire place with them, dry them, they didn't have a scent so I didn't make food from them. However, the city has decided to build some ugly buildings in that place, so they flattened half of the area to the ground, made it into nothing but empty dirt. Needless to say I was devastated when I went foraging and found most of my plants, including the rose, gone.

However, the rose wasn't just a plant you can run over and destroy; in the spring I found new shoots, it's starting up again from the roots, and it's not going to get exterminated so easily. I do believe they're intending to destroy it completely, so I'm going to try and rescue it by taking some cuttings and propagating it.

Here's what it used to be vs what it is now.

:(

I took a few of the most sturdy stems I could find, I had to get plant cutters in order to do it, they will not break easily. Here's me propagating them at home:

All of the leaves and growth is stripped down, because a plant without roots cannot support foliage. For roses, I think stems of 12-15cm in lenght are reccomended for propagation, that way they have enough stem to try and grow roots from, and not too much to support. I stabbed them in a pot of soil, and then covered with this big glass thing, because cuttings will usually only grow in high humidity, they need to be supplied with water from air, because they don't have roots yet. I had to cut them down a bit more to fit them in, but I think that will be okay. I watered them excessively, and sprayed the cover with water too, so it would create super humid conditions.

I left this on the kitchen window, so it doesn't have to deal with a lot of sun or heat, it's best for cuttings to be put in mild conditions so they can focus on development of roots. If they start growing new foliage, that's the sign that the propagation is successful!

Here they are 10 days later:

To me it looks like all of them are already growing new foliage, but, it's suspicious, I don't think they would have managed to grow new roots so soon, in my mind it should take a ~while~. Maybe they're just using the plant power they had stored in the stem, and haven't figured out they've been turned into cuttings yet. The only way to really check would be to pluck them out and check for roots, but I won't do it yet, I'll leave them in here for at least 2 more weeks before trying to transplant them somewhere else. But for now it looks hopeful! I might have roses on my balcony!

Here's the first post I ever made about this rose, if you wanna see more pictures of how it looked.

(edit: I later looked into how long do rose cuttings take, and it said 2 months, but it also said that in late spring, you're supposed to only take young, flexible, and not-woody cuttings, and they'll grow faster. So I have messed up a little, sturdy cuttings are to be taken in the fall and winter and they're the most difficult ones to root. It also said you need 25cm and to bury them 70% in the ground. But it seems that it's still going well so do not follow the rules! I did have one that was young and flexible and that one is showing the strongest signs of growth.)

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Treehouse Gardens

[tragically-torie]

My little plant finds and propagations from this weekend!

1. Blushing bromeliad

2. Venus fly trap

3. Parlor palm

4. Chain of hearts (little jar that looks like just dirt has a tiny tuber from this plant that I’m trying to root)

5. Purple Hearts

6. Little baby succulent petals found on the nursery floor

Have a magical day!

[petula-xx]

Last season my fig cutting put on nearly 1 metre (3'3'') in growth, but it was a single stem with no side branches.

I didn't want it to stack on another metre straight up again this year. So I pruned off the top 30cm (1') during Winter.

Success! I now have 6 new side shoots. Each of these will become a fruit bearing branch that I can actually reach.

[rhanscozycorner]

Last weekend I went to the Nordic garden fair (Nordiska trädgårdar). It has become somewhat of a tradition of mine to go at least one day every year. This is mostly because I am always looking forward to seeing two special exhibitors: The Swedish Hoya Society (Svenska Hoyasällskapet) and The Swedish Bonsai Association (Svenska bonsaisällskap). Their booths are always a lot of fun. The bonsai booth is especially pretty, it is so marvelous what people can create. There are quite a lot of other things to see at the fair. Unfortunately, I don't have a garden to care for so there isn't much for me to get from any of the other vendors.

This year I bought a lot of hoya cuttings from the Swedish Hoya Society. I was planning on purchasing a carnivorous plant, but I almost felt possessed once I arrived at the hoya booth. I couldn't stop myself. I am quite fond of particularly hoyas and orchids. If I could spend my money frivolously, I would choose to have a jungle in my home. For now, I will settle on my kitchen window frame being overgrown. Seeing it makes me so happy, even though I no longer have any drinking glasses to drink from (they have all been taken for my new lovely cuttings).

That is all for now, I wish everyone a very joyful day!

[bonsaiempire]

Just posted on on YouTube channel, how to grow trees from cuttings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlP93nr5FE

[tonytomeo]

Raising Cane

Sugarcane has been disturbingly easy to grow. This pair of pictures were taken about a day apart. The picture with smaller growth was taken yesterday morning, and posted with my Six on Saturday post at midnight. The picture with larger growth was taken this morning. If sugarcane grows this fast as a rooting cutting during winter, what will it do in the landscapes? Will it become an invasive weed?…

[kihaku-gato]

A friend visited me today to not only drop off my 2 ordered manga from way yonder, she also dropped me off two additional manga which were on my huntlist and also gave me cuttings of several houseplants from her own collection!! We also chatted a bunch which I'm very happy about as well since we haven't seen each other in person in YEARS.

I was not expecting so much plant material! I wanted to give her one of my Clivia plants in return but being the spider mite infestation is still too recent ago for either of our tastes we decided she can have a plant later. Thinking about it maybe even seeds from one of my plants to play it extra safe considering how lovely her collection is and how strict she is with dealing with sickly plants (the VERY valid "it's too much risk/trouble, throw em out" mantra).

It took me a bit to get them all potted since my attention span kept fizzling out and I wasn't 100% sure what pots to use and where to put all these lads. for now they can stay in my bedroom separate from my main collection (moreso for the safety of these new plant cuttings rather than the safety of my old plants).

I ended up getting a variegated birdsnest snake plant, Scindapsus pictus exotica, Scindapsus pictus, String of turtles, Philodendron mican (and several other Philodendron varieties), and possibly even a Hoya pubicalyx Splash (I'm not 100% sure since it has absolutely no leaves to ID with, but the growth tip and stem SCREAMS Hoya to me, I recall she does not have much material of that species to work with, and I was sure I smelled the distinct smell of Hoya sap while I was taking the cuttings out of the plastic bag).

I hope I have good luck with these guys, it feels weird to have new cuttings of unfamiliar houseplant species when I've felt I've been just hobbling back into more persistent houseplant care with several plant corpses under my belt as of recent. I'm especially happy about the snake plant, Scindapsus, and potential Hoya so I would really like them to thrive in this farmhouse.

[urbansoulfarmer]

Show me the roots! My cuttings are doing well. I have sugar cane, guava, pomegranate and mulberry cuttings.

[balkanradfem]

So I put some lemon balm in a tiny vase for decoration, because I always have to pull it out of the garden because it's trying to take over everything. And after a week I got suspicious because it was still green and not dying back like plants usually do in a vase. And do you see the white lines in the water?? All of those plants decided to root in the water. So apparently I started propagating this plant accidentally. I think this only happens in spring, when the plant is so filled with growth hormones it doesn't even care if it's in soil or the water, this doesn't happen in the other seasons!

Anyway, I felt bad to let it rot in there, so I took one and planted it. Here it is after 1 week of getting into soil:

It already grew like 4 new leaves since it was in there, and I see it growing 2 more, it's growing like crazy. I already have enough of it in my garden, I think I'll gift it to a friend who likes lemon balm tea. I'm gonna bring this to them and go 'Do you want something aggressive and invasive in your garden'.

[dutchieyelul]

The cuttings i took from my grandmas white Christmas cactus are blooming 🥹

[tragically-torie]

Inch plant cuttings

The pretty leaves and little roots 🌿🌱🥹🥰 my heart is so happy

[trkkr47]

I have potted my willow cutting! My aspirational tree. I want to have ground to plant it in by the time it gets big enough to need it.

[turkeyhillicedtea]

End of season flower pickings