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Loving your excellent online propagation course. Still plenty of time to try lots of things this year. Thank you Rosy.

Brilliant! Reasons for multiple failures understood at last, thank you so much.

Thank you very much This 80 year old grandmother has learnt a lot.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have now realized I was drowning my cuttings, it is thus amazing that some survived and flourished.

Valuable,interesting presentation & easy to understand and remember ! Thks.again,Rosie,for helping us all. 🌈

Thanks Rosy 💎

What a gift of knowledge to the world!

Thank you so much, Rosie! I’m really excited to begin your course. US zone 6B

Recently had to prune an itea and someone drove over half of a viburnum. So I figured I’d make this an opportunity and try to propagate since there are some areas on the property I’d like to fill in. I’ve had success with pyracantha in a propagator so I used that and also used longer pieces in tree seedling pots. Cut off extra foliage and immature berries. Hoping for the best.

I've successfully propagated nepeta and penstamons that are in flower. I just cut the flowers off, remove some of the bottom leaves, (which is where the roots will come from) and dip in hormone powder and let root over a month or so. Best to plant cuttings close to the side of a terracotta pot and keep moist and out of direct sun. Cuttings need to be about 8 to 10 cm long....if your cutting is something like daphne or a budleia make sure you cut some larger leaves in half, (widthways) to reduce water loss, and make sure you have at least 2 nodes under the soil, for better chance of rooting. Spring and summer, even early autumn time is the best time for propagating. Geraniums and fuschias are also good to propagate. I havent had luck propagating camelias, rhododendrons or ericas...they are really difficult. Most perenials can be divided with roots and is so much easier than propagating.

I just nip the flowers off and they still grow well.

Excellent video! I wonder how I’ve gotten anything to propagate (pure luck of the numbers) because I’ve been going about just willy nilly and from your very informative video, doing most things wrong!

Thank you so much Now I realise where I went wrong with a salvia I tried to propagate last month. - too long and the shoots were flowering ones that I simply removed the flowers. I shall try again tomorrow while we have this cool weather.

Cheers Rosie. As always, these are very helpful tips and clearly explained by you.

Thank you Rosie

Very useful information. Thank you.

Thank you for your tips. I had mostly success with longer cuttings, but I will try shorter ones.

I slice into the base of the clone vertically to create more surface area for the cutting to root. Works noticeably faster.

Excellent advice. Thanks

Thank you Rosy, very helpful. Can I ask, do cuttings at this time of year (July UK) need to go in the greenhouse or could I leave them outside against the wall of the house and do I need to put a plastic bag over the top to keep in the humidity? Thank you.

Very interesting... any specific advice about propagating Geranium Ardens?

Oops, too long. Thank you rosie

I took cuttings from Sedum and Salvia and placed them in the potting soil about 4 weeks ago. Do you think they are ready to be transplanted directly to the ground? Or, should I move them to individual pots first? By the way the sedum cuttings have developed buds, no, they did not have flower buds when the cuttings were taken.

You are one of many on youtube who clam to know the proper way to propagate cuttings. Why should I believe you as the right one?