"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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In article , Charlie Pridham
writes

Don't know that it helps you, but the best method for this plant is leaf
bud
cuttings very early in the season from plants that are kept cut back and
housed under glass. But as with most plants that does not mean to say
other
methods/timings won't work!



Charlie I've not tried to take many leaf bud cuttings, would you use
hormone rooting powder with them, keep them dry or damp/misted. What
medium would you think would be best for such cuttings?

Any other plants that might need this type of propagation?

janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk
This particular plant is best under mist but many others do well under white
polythene with bottom heat.
I use hormone powder but mainly as a fungicide, I am not convinced you
actually get much benefit from the hormone (especially as most of use are
not using it fresh!)
What you use at the roots seems not so important but I use a 2 parts peat 1
part perlite mix, but used to use 2 parts peat 1 part grit, and have tried
perlite and vermiculite but could not tell how wet it was!
I always wet the cuttings in with a spray containing a fungicide for
botrytis

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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea