This will be one of what I hope will be a series of posts about which methods work for me. I'll updated them as I learn from doing or from others, but everything here will be the results of my personal testing.
Cloning in Soil:
Day 1 -
Started with a cutting from growing mother plant. About 6" tall with about five nodes (leafsets).
Cloning in Soil:
Day 1 -
Started with a cutting from growing mother plant. About 6" tall with about five nodes (leafsets).
- Stripped - Pulled off all but the top three nodes.
- As I pulled them down, I tried to strip off the outer stem. I ended holding the removed leafset connected to what looked like a piece of thick dental floss a few inches long. This was discarded.
- The goal was to create a surface where roots would grow out from.
- Scraped - Razor scraped the bottom 1"
- Using a sharp and cleaned razor blade (cleaned with peroxide), I gently scraped off the top layer of the stem to expose the inner surface on the bottom one inch of the stem.
- Hint: Angle the blade so sharp edge is facing toward the top of the plant as you drag it down the stem. If you drag the blade toward the direction you are scraping (angled toward the bottom), you will catch and cut through the plant. (been there, dumb that)
- Rooting hormone - I rolled the stem through some Rootex gel spread onto a small dinner plate. Never dip them into the jar, as you can contaminate the entire container.
- Bury enough stem - I planted them far enough down to cover all of that scraped area and one full leafset that was not stripped (but was cut off blunt to about an eighth of an inch from the stem - basically crating a hump on the stem where that node used to be).
