So I'm starting a new experiment - propagating plants from cuttings. The subjects are rosemary, tea (Camellia sinensis), and lavender. Here they are in that order:
I only found one cutting that I felt safe taking from the tea shrub, so it's all or nothing on that one. It's a small-ish plant, and I want to make sure it has plenty of new shoots so that it will continue to grow.
So I cut the ends of the cuttings at a diagonal, dipped them in water, then rooting hormone, then stuck them in the same little cups of sterile seed starter mix that I use for my seeds. Then they got rolled up into Ziplock bags to keep the plants happy and humid. They look kind of like quarantine patients. :-P
And here they are in the window next to most of the seedlings I planted this year:
So we'll see how the cuttings work out. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
