Re: Re: Jim's new picture links

Auralie - FAB idea lady!!  Oh I must try that!

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
Sent: 7/13/2004 8:39:45 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Jim's new picture links

> In a message dated 07/13/2004 12:05:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
> fungicide, though I suppose the hormones might help.
> I'd love to have a set up like that.  Having it ready and waiting would make
> it so much easier to take cuttings whenever it occurs to you to do so.
> 
> 
> Kitty, this might not be sufficient for your needs, but for a number of years 
> I kept a clear
> plastic "sweater box" - don't know what else it would be called - about 
> 15"x6" by 5"deep
> with a cover - filled with about 3 or 4 inches of vermiculite on my kitchen 
> counter - protected
> spot by a sunny window.  The lid of the box was its tray, though there were 
> no drainage
> holes.  I can't begin to guess how many plants I rooted in that box but there 
> were many.
> Whenever I had a leaf or cutting or pruning, a piece of it went into the box. 
>  When the
> rootings began to get so big they overwhelmed other things, or there was no 
> room for
> new cuttings, I would pot them on.  Since it was on the kitchen counter, I 
> was reminded
> to water it frequently, but never let it be soggy.  I theorized -never read 
> this anywhere - 
> that the rooting plants produced their own hormones that helped other things 
> to root.
> Anyway, I kept the same vermiculite going - just topped it up when it got low 
> (some would
> cling to the roots of the cuttings when I removed them.)  When we remodeled 
> the kitchen
> a few years back I promised myself a new box - that one had become pretty 
> crummy 
> looking after more than fifteen years - but somehow have never replaced it, 
> though I think
> of it often.  I usually have something rooting somewhere at any given time.
> Auralie
> 
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