TheBip
Indianapolis, IN
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:20 am Post subject: Making new Chocolate Mint plants |
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A while back I posted about chocolate mint and said Id post pics of making new plants from teh old. But procrastinator that I am, Im just now getting around to it <.<
I dont have a pic of the cuttings right after I took em, but thats what imagination is for, right?  Basically, I took off the top few inches of a stem. Nipped off the lower one or two sets of leaves.
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I kept the cup on our kitchen windowsill which faces roughly north northwest. So it got some sun but not too much.
After a few days
Potted em up with some regular garden dirt cause I didnt have any potting soil on hand. But theyre doing fine anyway.
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daisybeans
annapolis md
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:22 am Post subject: |
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Well, don't they look happy!
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Well done Bip!
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eileen
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Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:05 am Post subject: |
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I find all types of mint so easy to take cuttings from to make new plants. They seem to root here almost as you're taking the cuttings from the parent plant.  That's why I never plant them in the garden as they tend to take off and spread so rapidly. I have lemon mint, peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint and apple mint at the moment.
Your cuttings certainly look as though they are very healthy Jen. Well done. 
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TheBip
Indianapolis, IN
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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If I ever get around to it *lol!* Ill post pics of the plants now, theyre branching out already, adn I did pinch the tips off to try and make em a bit bushier. I would love to get some other types of mint, I had ordered some about two years ago but the summer heat did em in 
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jardin
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:31 am Post subject: chocolate mint |
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I know this mint is easy to grow and it spreads rapidly, but I've never tried it. I have some peppermint that I grow at home because I found out that the spanish sun is just too much for it... I use it mostly for ice tea it's great!
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