"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from Janet Tweedy contains these words:
Gosh, for years I've laboured under the misapprehension that clematis
needs internodal cuttings!
I've always thought that that was the correct way doe them
You do, but just leave two nodes in the cutting instead of just one.
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Rusty
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Clematis like most climbing plants are stem rooting but the only reason you
do internodal cuttings is commercial (you get twice as many cuttings per
stem/stock plant. But in the USA they use normally 2 noded cuttings more
often than not.
I have also found by doing internodal cuttings one can make them really
short 1-2cm, which prevents them wobbling which in turn slows rooting.
If you find a way that works stick with it!
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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
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Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)