Following up on the original post, I have news. A month or so ago I lost the will to wait and decided to lift a couple of the more promising cuttings. There were roots, but only just. I was chancing my arm a little.
Still, three young plants were duly potted up and have been doing quite nicely since. I resolved to wait until the end of the month before turning any more out.
On Wednesday this week I did the deed. I was initially very encouraged. The first couple of cuttings I removed had excellent roots, much better than the earlier group.
Those remaining were duds. Plenty of top growth but nothing underneath, all mouth and no trousers!
Interestingly I noticed there was a lot of new root growth left in the cuttings compost. Perhaps I was too cavalier with my disinterring, perhaps I broke off good roots. Maybe, we’ll never know. I decided to repot the stumpy cuttings. we’ll see what happens, they may yet root.
All in all it has worked out quite well. I started with one old plant and now have 6, possibly more, new ones. I’ll grow them on a bit then plant them out.
I’ll be back soon with more propagating malarkey.
Are you just pulling them up to get their pictures?! or do the need to be potted? When I grow such copies, I do not tamper with them. In fact, the (fancier) zonal geraniums are doing that right now. I know they are not doing much down under where I can not see, but I don’t care. As long as they know what they are doing, I am fine with that. Coincidentally, I want to eventually get copies of an anemone here. It multiplies every time it gets dug up, but not intentionally. It just does it because a few roots get left behind.
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Impatience mainly!
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Well, I can not argue with that.
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Maybe try one or two in hydropod and see what they do? Bit of an experiment
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Could do yes, might try that.
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They are lovely of course but goodness they can be so invasive – I pull up armfulls of them every autumn or else they would smother everything in their path. Hope yours are more delicate.
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The pink ones are notorious spreaders but these are very well behaved.
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One of my favorite plants, but a somewhat harder to grow in Alabama than in Britain. The most hardy one I have is in an inconvenient location. This post gives me some guidance for transplanting.
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Harder because of the heat?
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Yes, the heat and the unusually long dry (even drought in 2016) periods lately. Climate change is upon us.
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