Re: What am I doing wrong?
- To: propagation@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
- From: G* S*
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:02:00 -0600
karl whitcomb says that putting a pot-grown plant out into the garden is
putting it out into a pot - the soils are so different, and the rootball
stays in the soil it knows. he reccommends washing the roots clean of
potsoil before planting out into the gearden. that works for me
geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: diana <diana@olympus.net>
To: propagation@mallorn.com <propagation@mallorn.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
>Nan, don't ever use garden soil (even amended) for 'potting on'. Use
bagged
>potting soil. The drainage, no matter what, isn't right.
>Pot on using bagged medium. When the roots fill the pot by half or better,
then
>plant the root ball in your garden.
>Diana
>The Greenhouse Nursery
>Port Angeles, WA
>
>Nan Sterman wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for the variety of responses. I guess I should have been
>> clearer with my original post, please forgive me as I was writing out of
>> frustration of having lost yet more babies to the dreaded transplant
demon.
>>
>> Okay, I am talking about all kinds of plants started from seed (veg and
>> perennial) as well as soft wood cuttings, mostly of perennials. I start
my
>> cuttings in perlite or vermiculite/peat/perlite mixture (the only water
>> started plant I have ever been successful with is curly willow which
would
>> start in a gutter if it had any water in it!). The problems occur when I
>> pot on, not when I transplant into the ground. Example, I did cuttings
of
>> the california native monkey flower, diplacus (formerly mimulus) that is
>> native to the foothills around my house here in southern California. I
>> started several dozen cuttings in pure perlite. They rooted like
crazy --
>> roots were even coming out of the bottom of the pots. I potted them on
into
>> a mixture of garden soil and perlite (pretty light) and promptly least at
>> least 70% of them. Same goes for tomato seedlings when I start my
summer
>> veg garden. lots of plants germinate and get to be good sized, but when
I
>> pot them on, I loose them. I've lost salvias this way (from cuttings) as
>> well.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Nan
>
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