Re: Propagating New Guinea Impatients
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Propagating New Guinea Impatients
- From: "* L* <n*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:31:30 CDT
>Just found some unusual New Guinea Impatients. My
>reference says that they are tender perennials, best
>treated as annuals. I'd like to have other plants,
>but I'm not sure how to propagate them. Regular
>impatients can be rooted in water, but is this
>how I should do it with these plants? Should I use
>a rooting hormone? vermiculite?
>
>Thanks.
I've had fairly good luck rooting New Guinea impatiens about the same
way as "regular" ones, although I generally lose a few. I use rooting
hormone and stick the cuttings in sand (because that's what happens to
be in the hot bed I use for propogation.) Of the cuttings I made last
fall, probably about 50% were successful. Not great, but not too bad,
either.
Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7
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