Re: rooting/rooted cuttings
- To: r*@california.com, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: rooting/rooted cuttings
- From: r* c*
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:19:55 GMT
Dear Barbara
Everything I have learned about taking cuttings suggests they should never
be put in direct sun. Bright light but never direct sun, until they have
made sufficient roots and been potted up into regular potting soil. The
direct sun is probably why the cuttings are limp.
If I were you I'd move them back to their shaded position. Good luck.
Robin Corwin
gardening student
Los Angeles area
>From: barbara sargent <rsgt@california.com>
>Reply-To: rsgt@california.com
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: rooting/rooted cuttings
>Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:55:58 +0900
>
>I've rooted some small cuttings of penstemon and planted them in several
>spots. Also am trying to root cuttings of cistus.
>
>My questions: should I have waited to plant the penstemon? I.e. I could
>have put them in larger pots, perhaps indoors, and waited until spring when
>they'd be bigger.
>
>Should I keep the cistus cuttings indoors? Right now the pot is outside in
>a spot that gets direct afternoon sun. For the first week it was in shade.
>I don't know if roots are forming yet. The cuttings have gotten a bit limp
>but look like they might be putting out some leaf growth.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Barbara - in Berkeley
>
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