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Re: Cuttings In Water

Hi, I'm trying to root horehound in water. I'll let you know how it goes.
Cindy

>Hello.
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>Cuttings in water is one of my favorite topics, because I somehow
>simply do not have the ability to root cuttings in soil, never, not
>once, no way no how, but even I can do cuttings in water for those
>plants which will.
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>So in addition to those I've previously posted about, the coleuses
>(including Cuban oregano and variegated cuban oregano), mints (genus
>Mentha), basils (almost all except camphor basil), Plectranthuses,
>Salvias elegans and involucrata, Ajugas, scullcaps (Scuttelaria
>lateriflora and some others), dead nettles (Lamium), Lamiastrums,
>lion's ear, ground ivies (Glechoma hederacea and " " variegata, and
>the many morning glories, and probably some others...
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>This year so far I've rooted Ipomea batatas "Blackie" (hence the sweet
>potato vine is but another morning glory after all), Ajuga lobata, and
>rather surprisingly to me, "Vietnamese coriander", a Polygonum sp.,
>which seems to do this Very vigorously and reliably and is unlike some
>of the things which are particular about recieving more light while
>they are rooting (the fuzzier mints for example seem to require bright
>places). I think the biggest surprise of all was Yerba Buena, Satureja
>douglasii, I had all but given up on the Saturejas.
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>Have I missed any?
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>Good gardening,
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>Robert Carl chroniapolloni@yahoo.com
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