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Best way to start cuttings-Black &Blue Salvia?
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Netty
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: Best way to start cuttings-Black &Blue Salvia? |
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I've managed to over winter a pot of Black & Blue Salvia but have been having trouble getting cuttings to survive. The first time I used peat pods and they damped off. The second time they just died. Does anyone have any tips?
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toni
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Cuttings can be taken from either the new tips in the spring or the more hardened tips of late summer/early fall.
I guess the main question would be did you keep the cuttings warm? They should have heat from the bottom, you can use a heating pad or possibly a light bulb.
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Netty
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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No Toni, I didn't give them any bottom heat. I'll start a few more and try that.
Just wondering - it didn't seem to produce any seeds last year. Is Black & Blue something that is best started from cuttings?
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toni
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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From what I have read they don't reliably produce viable seeds so taking cuttings is the best and basically the only way to get more plants.
I was going to try that this spring but mine have spread out really well, guess I will be dividing them this fall from the looks of it.
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Netty
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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You are lucky that they overwinter outside for you Toni. They are my absolute favorite and impossible to find in garden centers here.
Thanks for the help.
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WTxDaddy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:34 am Post subject: salvia |
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I have never tried to root a cutting of black & blue salvia, but it is intriguing. All I have came from nurseries & they are spreading. Now, I cut some spindly twigs off a corkscrew willow last Summer & stuck them in pots in the greenhouses & I now have 4 little corkscrew willows to find a place for.
Has anybody ever used a rooting hormone?
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Netty
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I use rooting hormone on any cuttings I try. Some plants seem to take off and others just die - the Black and Blue Salvia cuttings just don't want to work for me! I've had great success with other plants including Bougainvillea, Potato Bush, Fuschia, Burro's Tail, Ivy, and Geraniums.
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woodlandfey
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I have used rooting hormone many times. Like Netty said some plants love it some just don't care. I think it's always worth a try tho!
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