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Growing Cuttings in Water

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  • Mayflower10cat
    Mayflower10cat Posts: 1,148 Forumite
    Impatiens work especially well in water. I've had a small amount of success with penstemons, but not enough to convert me from sticking them in gritty compost. I've always meant to try those gelpots you can buy for cuttings - friend of mine had great success with fuchsias, both annual & perennial.
  • Herbyme
    Herbyme Posts: 725 Forumite
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    Ivies work brilliantly!
  • Orange_King
    Orange_King Posts: 720 Forumite
    Fuschias work well for me - never thried geraniums but have 5 plants that I want to look after for next year and hope to take cuttings from them .

    So I need to wait till they have finished flowering? Is there best practice when deciding which shoots to cut?
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Just take cuttings of about 3" and they should root well now. I have a good few rooting now and they have started rooting in about 3 weeks, mind you I do use small size jiffies.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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