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Re: Rooting Azaleas

>I don't know very much about Azaleas (can't eat em smoke 'em or drink
>'em and the molecules in 'em are so ulgy you can tell they're poison
>just by looking)
>but I am wondering if your problems with cuttings are the same ones I
>get, damping off of everything even with a hormone product with
>fungicide (in fact I can't even find one without fungicide anymore). In
>fact I am amazed to hear people talk about sealing cuttings in a
>drycleaner bag for six weeks; mine would be rotted in six days no matter
>how careful I am. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? It can't ALL
>be due to a stuffy northern house in the winter, trying to keep the
>heating bill down, can it?
>
>I am wondering if everyone always makes sure to keep the branches shaded
>and moist when they bend a branch over to root. Would it help to place,
>maybe, a small board over where the part of the branch has been buried?
>
>Good gardening!
>Rob  ChroniPepperoni@webtv.net
>


Hi Rob,

I encountered the same problem.  I was trying to root them outside under a
shade tree several years ago--had them in small pots, dipped in rootone,
plastic bags over the pots--thought the shade would protect them.  They just
went limp.  I wonder if I used the wrong cuttings--do we use the newly
forming hard wood, the old hard wood, or the newest shoots?

I plan to try the weighted branch this year and more cuttings with a friend
who says she has done rootings in pots successfully.  Will advise as to her
technique and our results later.

Millie
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