Re: Sweet Williams cuttings
- Subject: Re: Sweet Williams cuttings
- From: Al Krismer a*@fuse.net
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:08:15 -0400
Lorna,
As a propagator I have taken Sweet William cuttings in mid summer on the new
vegetative growth. I take a cutting about three inches long and carefully
strip away the leaves, leaving about 1/2 in of the stem exposed. I also found
that smaller cuttings root better than the larger rosettes. I root them without
rooting compound under a mist system. They usually rooted in about ten days.
Your success might be limited without some type of mist system to prevent the
cuttings from drying up.
Al Krismer
Cincinnati
lorna garwood wrote:
> Hi Group!
> I posted about a week ago and got no replies so I thought I would post again
> on this.
> I have some beautiful sweet williams that I would like to have more of,
> these were a very light clear pink and out of thousands of these I only got
> a couple of clumps in this color.
> I dug up one clump and will plant it in a container until fall, but would
> like to take cuttings of these as well....can anyone tell me how to do this?
> It is very hot here now...(100's) and I did get some cuttings from them
> and I put rootone on them and put it on a morning sun windowsill in my
> house....any other ideas on this? I would appreciate any comments on this
> subject....websites on propogation possibly?
> Or anyones ideas on their successes with taking root cuttings. I don't want
> these to seed out because I want this color. Thanks very much!
> Lorna in Hot Calif.
>
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