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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Layering Pants & Rooting Plants

On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Joann Stewart wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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.

I find that I get most things to root best if I use a mist bench, which
can be rigged from the fine "mist" nozzles that are designed to be
used with drip irrigation, and a timer.  Cuts down on the fungus problems
immensely, and you don't cook the plants.

If you've got an automated lawnsprinkler system with a spare "timing
channel", it's very easy and cheap to hook up a mist bench.  Great for
starting seedlings too.

Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8
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