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Fragipani cuttings
G'day Richard
Thanks very much for that info.......I will try it once my seedling trees are big enough to scavenge some cuttings. I've noticed some ?rooted cuttings with shrivelled stems so have steered clear of buying those because I was unsure if they would survive, your findings do seem more common sense in this regard. Thanks again Bronwyn ;-) Loosecanon wrote: "HC" wrote in message ... G'day Richard Thanks for that info....seems if I 'had' been able to get the pink cuttings I might have stuffed up anyway!! LOL How long do you dunk them in the bucket of water? Just until the newspaper is saturated? and how long until you plant them? Had noticed a lovely deep black/red on eBay but wasn't online when the auction closed. Bronwyn ;-) Loosecanon wrote: "Peter" wrote in message ... thanks meeee mine has pink and white petals with a yellowish core in them I took 4 cuttings and have em out in the sun now . hope it works Cheers pete meeee wrote: Hi Pete....technically do everything Bronwyn said. However I'm Fangipanni mad, and have an embarrassing (to family and friends) tendancy to hack bits off vulnerable frangipannis (not from people's gardens of course) at any time. I let them dry out, whack into some well drained potting mix and voila! Of course, you'd have a higher chance of the thing surviving if you did it properly, but I believe the most important bit is to let it dry out/callous over for a week or two first, then make sure it's not waterlogged. Our Big W also had some recently, Darwin Sunrise being the one I bought, as it's a lovely deep red with yellow centre and slightly ruffled petals...might be worth a look! "Peter" wrote in message ... Edited Good luck with your cuttings. Take a photo of your tree, just in case the cuttings don't make it and keep in touch, because who knows what colours the seedlings I bought on eBay will be, the expensive one 'should' be deep red because that's why I paid all the $$$'s. thats a really good idea i might just do that They are a 'beautiful' flower and perfume, aren't they? Just divine in the evenings. i got to say i am not too enamoured with the tree its self but the Flowers are great, especialy with my pond benath it, when the fall inot the water they look great Cheers I used to do the drying of the stems but found I lost a few. Someone told me to wrap them in newspaper and dunk them in a bucket of water. 100% success and better root systems. This is better for pinks and reds as they seem to have a different sort of stem to the whites and tricolours that grow in the temperate zones. Anyways my 2 bobs worth. Cheers Richard I tried it with white frangapani cuttings a friend dropped around. I had six of them I think and they had leaves on. Anyways I just wrapped some newspaper around them and an elastic band around the top and bottom. I checked about 2 months later. Water was nice a green and the mosquitos were loving it. The newspaper stopped any green slime and all had roots. I just transferred these to pots and carefully added soil so as to not do to much damage to the roots. I like this method because when you dry them they tend to shrivel in the stem. This way in the water the stems seemed to be as big as I started with. Give it a go you have nothing to lose. Experiment with white first as it seems to be as common as mud. Cheers Richard |
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