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Re: Propogation Box

Stephen,

I've never got around to a mist-propagator, but I find most forms of 
Phlox subulata to be easy to root at almost any season without mist or 
bottom heat.  Most of my plants have been produced in boxes with about 
two inches of medium [usually a peat/pumice/sand, but any draining mix 
seems to work].  You can use a plastic or wooden nursery flat, put the 
mix in, and tent it with plastic sheeting over wire hoops.  I put mine 
outdoors at the base of a north-facing retaining wall, but indoors you 
could use one of the cheap clear plastic seedflat covers to the same effect.

The main problem with a full-scale mist-propagator in a basement setting 
is that the misters will likely make enough head-room so that you have to 
go to high intensity lamps rather than fluorescents.  Additionally, you 
may have problems with moisture escaping that you don't have with the 
simplest set-ups.

Loren Russell

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Stephen Millard wrote:

> I have a need to do some vegatative propagation on phlox.subulata. I 
> need to make a few hundred plants for a bank planting. I don't currently
> have a greenhouse, and am thinking about making a box to do the 
> propagation.  I would like to see some plans for one, to save myself
> the agony losing any more cuttings in my make-shift contraption.
> 
> What I would like in the line of capabilities:
> 
> 1) Use of perlite
> 2) a misting system
> 3) circulation
> 4) Use under lights in my basement
> 
> If anyone has seen anything they can point me to, I would be grateful.
> I had seen something I think on one of the newsgroups a week or so
> ago, but I didn't save it.
> 
> Thanks, Steve
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