"escape" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:21:16 GMT, "Vox Humana"
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"escape" wrote in message
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I will send cuttings to you as soon as the plants wake up. I always
tell
people
to remind me in spring for cuttings. Gee, you found a post which is six
years
old!

I tried rooting some cutting I took from my burgmansias last summer, but
they rotted.


You have to root them in almost dry peat moss or vermiculite. You can
root them
in water as well. Nightshades can tend to rot if they have any exposure
to any
of the fungal diseases.


I'll try the peat. When I put them in water, they stay nice and green, but
the bottom of the stem rotted. I would cut it off, and it would be OK for a
while and then rot again. Mine got so big that the branches kept breaking
under their own weight. Here are some pictures. I got them for a $1 about
three years ago and they were only a few inches high. They really took off
last summer. They are dormant in the basement right now. Here are some
pictures from last summer.
http://tinyurl.com/6fvfz