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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
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lisa
lexington
ky
USA
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 Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 04:58:50 AM
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ok--i am way tired of winter and all the ice and snow outside my windows..time to think of gardening... I would love to do some cuttings this spring ..of a wild rose my neighbor has .. a fig tree..and some chokecherry bushes another gal has ... I have never used rooting hormone.. Is it easy ? what kind of luck have you had with it ?? I have some knockout roses i would like to do cutting of also.has anyone done knockout roses before ..
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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
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lisa
lexington
ky
USA
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 05:14:10 AM
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| Bonjour gal pal! I have had great success using rooting hormone on every kind of cutting from lavender to gardenia to rosemary! Also good with geraniums and houseplants... If you have azaleas or hydrangeas, etc. that you can bend a branch down to soil level, you can make a little incision into the branch where it will "touch down", rub some rooting hormone on it and then weight it down with a brick or stone on either side of the cut and pin it down using a bent piece of a wire coat hanger, or some such pin. Good luck! You'll be selling or giving away extras before you know it. Hugs, Nance |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 05:25:02 AM
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I agree with Nance, Lisa. I use Rootone a lot. Usually, I take slips of rose bushes in the fall and cover them with glass jars for the winter. But an old gardener friend of mine once told me that if you take a slip of a rose bush in May, it will root and you will have roses that same season. I tried it once and it really did work!
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
2963 Posts
lisa
lexington
ky
USA
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 05:53:26 AM
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thanks ! they sound so easy !!! I am looking forward to trying them. I want to do edible landscaping all around my yard. The roses i would use the petals for jams and such. I want to surround my garden area with knock out rose bushes on 2 sides eventually . Will take me several years to get it to all look like i wsnt..but that is ok. To be able to use cuttigns instead of buy the plants at 15 to 20 each would be a great help
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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
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lisa
lexington
ky
USA
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 06:36:37 AM
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Lisa - Have you checked out www.shootingstarnursery.com? They're in Georgetown, KY. I've bought native plants from them before and I like them. I'm planning to buy some small native trees this spring. Things that are good food sources for birds and wildlife here.
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
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Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 06:42:37 AM
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If you take willow cuttings and put them in a bucket of water and let them root you can then use the water to root other plants. Willow naturally produces root hormore to enable them to spread along creek and lake beds.
As far as rooting an apple cutting, I'm not sure that would work. I would research that one before I put all that love and energy into it.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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farmmom22
True Blue Farmgirl
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Tammy
Scottsville
KY
USA
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 06:46:00 AM
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Hey Lisa, I am so with you on this subject. Plants are so expensive! A few things I always try to take cuttings of and root are coleus, sweet potato vine and geraniums. Just make a cut, dip it in the rooting hormone and put it in a small pot of potting soil. Also another trick for geraniums is to pull them out of their pots or dig them up from the ground right before the first frost and shake the dirt off of them. Then put them in a paper bag and store them somewhere cool and dark. In spring you can replant them and they will come back again. I knew one lady who had the same geraniums for like 4 or 5 years doing this. Tammy
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5 acre Farmgirl
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Posted - Feb 04 2009 : 6:37:46 PM
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I do the "willow" rooting thing every year, things really do root well...except, red bud, apple, apricot and those hardwoods...
Ladies, what is the way to do those hardwood cuttings?
I have had no luck with cutting in early spring, rootoneing them and putting in a covered tray with just loose filler(can't remember the name of it)(grin)senior moment! )
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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
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lisa
lexington
ky
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rooting hormone ??
