How'd it go? Thinking of making some cuttings of our healthiest cats pajamas catmint. They didn't do so well this year, heavy clay soil :(

I'm glad it was helpful! Those cuttings root great! It's an easy way to expand your garden areas with catmint.

I'm so happy they did well! Catmint is such a great plant out in the garden!

@@Growingthehomegarden deer-proof, rabbit-proof, nearly insect-proof, long-blooming, attracts bees and butterflies. I cut back the mama plants last month as their blooms waned, am now enjoying another gorgeous bloom here in August. ♥️🤗

Lol, I guess I need a go pro or something I can use hand free!

@@Growingthehomegarden By going one-handed you show your audience how easy it can be. ;-)

You're welcome! Catmint attracts those bees like crazy.

It is very easy, you should see some great success!

Very cool find! Catnip can propagate exactly the same way BTW.

You are welcome. Thank you for watching. :)

Go for it!

Thank you Lisa!

Glad to be an encourager!

Thanks for commenting! I think you will have a lot of success with it. Taking a few cuttings is a great way to rejuvinate catmint!

It's definitely a resilient plant!

Check the soil every now and then and look at the bag you use to see if there is humidity. If the soil is moist and the humidity is present you don't need to water from the bottom.

I generally would keep them out of the sun until rooting. So light shade would be ideal. Putting them under a tree that gets dappled shade would work well since the evaporation caused by the sun would be much less.

Catnip does like the sun and warm weather. Try to make sure the soil drains well and doesn't get too wet all the time.

I'll see what I can do on that. Sounds like some info that would be useful. In general you have a higher amount of hormones in the nodes. So you can have a greater chance of success with some cuttings that are nodal. Sometimes plants will only root from a node. Other times plants will root internodally and you can make many more cuttings from them, like hydrangeas.

Growing The Home Garden Do you cut right above the node, or just below it? I have an adorable pot and I want to give some catnip cuttings as a gift :)

And I didn’t know about nodes having the hormones, very interesting. Thanks for letting me know, it’s nice not to always have to resort to searching on the internet. I also heard somewhere that when you make a cutting, you snip it at an angle. Not sure if that’s a thing or what that does 🤔

It does help you identify which end of the cutting is down. It also may help you stick the cutting into the medium.

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I always split them up. Usually into separate pots to grow a little larger but they can be put directly in the garden if they have enough roots.

Congrats on that success! If you have a spot prepared for them I would say go ahead and plant. Once rooted they are very vigorous growers.

@@Growingthehomegarden Excellent. Thank you for the response and will do! I just watched your video on propagating salvia from cuttings and will try that next. There's also a beautiful unique light pink climbing rose of some sort up the street from me in the tree line weeds. I'm not sure if it's wild or not but it's too beautiful to be buried in roadside weeds. If you have a video or advice for propagating wild roses and also rugosa from cuttings that would be amazing. I'm glad I found your channel and made sure to subscribe. THANK YOU!

@@HomewardMozart It sounds like it may be a multiflora rose. Those are quite invasive here in TN and I wouldn't recommend propagating it. Get a nice climbing rose that isn't invasive and it can serve the same purpose in your garden. Those can also be propagated through cuttings.

@@Growingthehomegarden I just did a Google image search and it looks like what's called an "Eden climbing rose." It's just in a weird spot on the edge of a neighbor's property. Maybe it spread there over many years? Not sure. But it doesn't look like the multiflora.

It's ok if they lay down some. Catmint tends to be floppy sometimes and if you have tender growth it may do that. Dappled sunlight is OK but nothing direct as they may not be able to retain water while they are trying to form roots. Roots will take a few days or more to form. I've seen them root in as few as 4 days and as much as a couple weeks. In about a week if you gently tug on a cutting and feel resistance you probably have roots. Then you can gently remove it from your medium and pot it into it's own pot if you have roots.

For catmint the 70s is great. Are you asking about catmint or cuttings in general?

I think I would wait until spring. It will grow fast once the weather warms up again. Or you could divide it into pots, place in your greenhouse a few weeks before the last frost date and get some early growth. Then take cuttings in the greenhouse from those potted divisions. I probably wouldn't try making a bunch of cuttings right now as you will have to maintain them and they may not put on enough growth before color weather comes. If you heat your greenhouse you could do it but I think waiting until spring is going to have better results.

Either will work. If you have flowers remove them for the cutting so energy isn't going to the flowers while you are trying to grow roots.

You don't need to. Just trim off the flowers from the cutting when you root them. They should root well anytime. If you waited it would be hard to find the right time since it blooms constantly.

Catmint can root in 5 to 7 days. Probably about a month until you can plant in the garden confidently.

They are pretty tough plants so I would probably give it a good deep watering once a week if there isn't any rain. If it has excessive heat them maybe a little more. That being said we had only 3 inches of rain in July and I never watered. The catmint did fine but didn't bloom much.

@@Growingthehomegarden i recently bought a fully grown catmint with flowers blooming. but the bottom of it is a bit yellow now.

Anytime during the growing season will work. Give enough time before the first frost that it can grow roots and get a little established before winter weather. Maybe about 4 to 6 weeks before the first frost.

I had them in the greenhouse until roots grew. Shade would work well now while its hot. I won't use my greenhouse for a bit due to the heat.

The plant I took cuttings from is planted in a full sun location.

Growing The Home Garden How can you tell that the roots have grown?

The 3 cuttings in water i would probably just use soil for. Most cutting do better if placed in a darker environment more similar to what their roots would naturally form in. The catmint doesn't spread much for me. Catnip however spreads aggressively if allowed to go to seed.

@@Growingthehomegarden Thx, I better put them in one of those commercial fabric pots!

Those will work but any pot will do. I try to use what I have on hand and as a pack rat I save all those old nursery pots.

Growing The Home Garden what is the difference between catmint and catnip? New sub :)

@@KyndalTheMeister botanically they are in the same genus but have some differences. Nepeta x faasini is the cultivar I have and used for the example 'Walker's Low'. Catmint does not have the same chemical in it that attracts cats. Nepeta cataria is the botanical name for catnip and can be a magnet for cats! It's more of an herb that can be used in teas.

I prefer cuttings over division since I generally get more plants from it. If I were transplanting the catmint I would probably divide it then but otherwise I would just do cuttings to propagate more.

Growing The Home Garden thanks a lot