Re: Chocolate Cosmos
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Chocolate Cosmos
- From: J* G* a* O* P*
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:43:08 +0100
The message <00a601bec34d$5cd7d7a0$22c06ad1@SCAN.scan.missouri.org>
from "Jean Carpenter" <backhoe@scan.missouri.org> contains these words:
> Janet:
> Do you do anything special to your cuttings? Bottom Heat? Mist?, Rooting
> hormone? or just put them in soil? Do you take cuttings from bloomed stems
> or foliage? I love the plant and want to keep mine but here in our zone 6
> (-10 degrees) it will probably die and I would like to get some started to
> carry over until next year.
> Thanks for the info.
>
I tend to try to take non-flowering side-shoots, use a bit of
rooting hormone if I have it to hand, put a few cuttings in, say, a
5" pot and put a polythene bag ( is that a recognisable term in US?)
over the pot with a rubber-band round - to keep them moist. I then
root them in the house on a bright window-sill.
They have rooted quite quickly and easily for me. In fact when we
moved house, I lost the plant; I asked my mum to bring me a spare
shoot from a plant I had originally given her. It was quite droopy
when I took the cuttings. They seemed to die down totally but then,
in spring, when I thought I'd lost them, they resprouted from below
soil level. So I must admit they seem to me to be the sort of plant
that, on the whole, is on your side and makes an effort for you!
Perhaps I've just been lucky. Anyway, do have a go; I'd be surprised
if you don't succeed.
Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, Min temp: -8
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