Re: Success!!!!!

You GO Kitty!   How wonderful, I am so tickled.  I may need to try
your method myself.  My record w/ cuttings is relatively abyssmal.


On 8/9/05, Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> Kitty, that is very exciting.  I'm saving your instructions because there
> are several things around here I would like to take cuttings from.  I have
> an 'Bluebird' althea that I would like to do and a hydrangea that was sold
> to me as 'Annabelle' but each blossom is made up of gazillions of tiny
> flowers.  It is very fragrant.  I know I can get starts by putting bricks on
> the limbs, but your way sounds like so much more fun.
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kmrsy@netzero.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:52 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Success!!!!!
> 
> 
> > You gotta see this!  It worked!
> > I finally got up the nerve to check my cuttings. 5 weeks in the clear
> > box outside in a 1:1 mix of moistened perlite and vermiculite. 100%
> > success on Deutzia 'Mont Rose' and Weigela ' Bristol Ruby'! OK, I know
> > they are easy, but this is the best i've ever done even with them. I
> > also did a few of Rose of Sharon 'Blue Satin', Hydrangea serrata
> > 'Bluebird', and Syringa tribida 'Josee'. I had already potted up the
> > Josees, which had only about 30% success when I decided to take
> > pictures.
> >
> >
> > http://hort.net/+12Ra
> >
> > I'm just so tickled! Some of the others might have done better if I'd
> > taken the cuttings earlier; I did it about July 1. But I'm feelin good,
> > maybe next year I'll start earlier...with more boxes...on more
> > shrubs....you can't stop me now!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > Kitty
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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