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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Layering Pants & Rooting Plants

Charles, I have been using 2 litre pop bottles, with oasis sponge squashed
down into the bottome (cut the bottles in half, 1/3  up from the base.  I
soak the sponge, use Rootone on the cuttings, make a little hole for them,
leaving only 2 leaves, put 'em in, jam the top back on the bottle, put in a
cool, light place (I live in Dixie...things get cooked here in direct
sunlight.)  You might want to try this sometime?  Good luck. Joann
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> From: Charles E Bullard <doral25000@JUNO.COM>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: [SHADEGARDENS] Layering Pants & Rooting Plants
> Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 10:09 PM
>
> When I try to root plants I can't get any to root except for the gardenia
> thats the only one I can root successfully! I have tried rooting azaleas
> or some other plant and I can't get it to root from a cutting.
>
> The only method I can sucessfully get another pant from the parent plant
> is to layer it. I go to the base of the parent plant and dig a hole 6
> inches deep. I then place my branch into the hole and cover it then I
> place a brick or some other heavy object to hold the branch down. I then
> wait 1 year then I transplant the following year. I have succesfully
> layered azaleas and got some nice plants. Last year I layered some more
> azaleas and some boxwoods. this year I will have at least 30 azaleas and
> about 20 boxwoods. The ag ext office told me that layering plants would
> produce healther plants than rooted cuttings.
>
> I have tried to plant roses but I lose every one of them I guess our soil
> is not good for roses.
> Charles Zone 8a
>
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