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RE: What's Everybody Doing?

For mint, thyme, geraniums and some other plants / herbs I take the
cutting and dip in Roottone, shake off excess, make a hole in
vermiculite, use bottom heat and keep moist. I usually check everyday
and spray with water. After a few days or weeks, in some cases, I get
roots. 
Liz 

> >I've set lots of mint cuttings, divided my lemon thyme and took
cuttings of an English thyme. The cuttings didn't do well at all. I
placed them in a
soilless mixture, kept the medium moist and misted at least twice a
day. Still, lots of the cuttings dried up. Any ideas?
> >
Also, I want to take cuttings of my scented geraniums. I lost lots of
the last batch due to stem rot. Any tips on how to better stick the
cuttings? I did about the same with the scenteds as I did with the
English thyme

> >Cindy in TX, Z8/9
> 
> Cindy,  I used to start a lot of scented Geraniums from cuttings. 
The method I had the best success with was to put the cuttings in a
zip lock bag with a few drops of water in the frig for at least 24
hours so the cut ends could form a good callous.  Then dip in Rootone
and stick them in a mix of 1/2 perlite, 1/2 vermiculite on bottom heat
(70 F) in a shady part of the GH.  Keep the cutting mix moist.  A
shady spot in the garden would work well too.  In your climate, bottom
heat is probably not necessary.  The scenteds
> have varying degrees of difficulty for rooting.  Some will take a
few months and are considered almost impossible, others - like most of
the rose and lemon scents seem easy.  I always started mine in the
spring after the stock plants had woke up from winter and were putting
out nice fresh growth.  It was a good way to prune and shape the
plants at the same time.  Hope this helps.  Marilyn
> Marilyn Dube'
> NATURAL DESIGN PLANTS
> Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
> Portland, Oregon
> 
> 
> 

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