Alright, Dr. Kelly, easy techniques to root cuttings.
Some of our favorite annuals.
- Easy and cheap.
- And we like easy--
- [Chris And Kelly] And cheap.
- Exactly.
Do it yourself little projects that we can do and every year we have favorite, really
pretty plants that are annuals that we get and they do really good and we always are
like, oh, golly, I wish I could keep that over the winter.
But mostly, we don't have places to bring in these giant, big old plants like hibiscus,
the big old tropical hibiscus.
Or the big, pretty geraniums that have just done beautifully all summer, or big old impatiens
or coleus or some of these others that just really look nice and we're like, oh, gee,
I wish I could keep that for next summer.
And there's a way to do that.
Most of these plants root really, really easily.
And so I'm gonna show you how to do that.
So think I'm gonna demonstrate, I guess, first, the coleus.
And of course, you got coleus, they're huge.
- Right, right.
- In your garden, so you just pick a terminal, and you come in, this little, cheap knife,
I was tellin' y'all, they're really, really cheap.
I usually keep a bunch of these around the garden or different place where I can find
them.
But then you just go in and you just pinch that dude off or cut it off.
And what you'll wanna do is of course, remove these lower leaves, because when you put it
in the soil, those are probably gonna be below the soil level, and they're gonna rot and
fall off and not be a good thing.
So actually I usually just take my fingernails and pinch those off.
So see now we've got a cutting of our little coleus.
And what I do is I travel some, and you know in motel or hotel rooms, in the bathroom,
they always give you this shower cap.
And who wears the shower caps anymore, so I have just collected these, I've got like
a gazillion of 'em at home.
And what I do is I use these to make me a little mini-greenhouse, and I'm gonna show
you that first.
- [Chris] How smart is that, though?
- Yeah, really, so here's my impatiens that I have already stuck prior, about a week ago,
I did these about a week ago.
So they have actually, I think, a couple of 'em have roots, but I'm not gone pull it out,
but I did this about a week ago, and I've just got regular soil mix in there.
And then I just took some prunings from some of my plants, and made me some, these are
like my, what do we call that, the frame of my greenhouse.
And of course, when you take a cutting, you want to, it's got no roots, so you've got
to keep the moisture in the leaves until it can, so it won't dry out, as we've talked
in some of the previous segments about desiccation, so you take your shower cap, and you just
put it, and the nice thing about it, some people use plastic bags, but see I like the
shower cap 'cause it's--
- [Walter] Elastic.
- Yeah.
It keeps the moisture in and there's your little greenhouse, and these things'll usually
root in a couple of weeks.
In at least a month, you've got a rooted cutting.
And the way you can tell if it's rooted, let me just bring over one of these others.
This is, the coleus, let's look at that one.
Now this one I took a week ago as well, and I believe I pulled this one up just to see
if it had rooted and I believe I saw roots.
Now if you wanna test if one's rooted, you just tug on it a little bit, you don't pinch
the stem, because if you grab it at the foliage up here, if you pinch it, or break it off,
it'll probably grow another leaf, it's not gonna grow another stem if you pinch it.
And then I usually get something that I go in and sort of prize it up instead of just
pullin' it.
- [Chris] Smart.
- Yeah, so that way we're not breakin' off.
Oh, well, no, I broke it off.
- Uh-oh.
- I broke off my root.
But if you look at it, you can see tiny little root initials which are little bumps all along
the stems, so it won't be long.
But it did have a root on it before I got here, I got a little vicious with it, I guess,
when I pulled it out the first time.
- Let me ask you this, so what's the best way to water those, though?
- I have not had to water 'em for a week.
Because you get condensation inside this thing, and another thing, good point, another thing,
you keep 'em outta the sun, obviously, because you're gonna bake 'em, you put 'em in a little
shady kinda area of the garden, or I just keep 'em on the back steps of my patio, which
is shaded, and so it'll just no time at all, this plant will transpire and this'll start
getting moisture all built up in it.
And so I have not had to water it for a week.
Now there may be a time that I will before it roots, but I mean, obviously you can see
the soil and it's wet, so as long as it's wet I don't worry about it.
But there's another little way, if you don't travel and collect your shower caps, but if
you drink soda pop, you know.
You can just cut one of these two liter soda, I don't know if that's the right one, I think
this one went on this one.
But you can get the clear bottles, you gotta pick your brand so that it's a clear bottle,
usually, I mean you can get a green bottle, but I like the clear ones, 'cause I wanna
be able to see my plants, see what it's doin'.
So I cut the top off, and that's your little impromptu funnel you can use, so you might
wanna keep that.
And then this is your little greenhouse, and you just basically stick it down, and kinda
twist it a little bit to make it airtight as you can, and then there's your little greenhouse.
So it's really easy, it's not a big thing, and then when they root, oh and here's my
hibiscus.
So this was one of the hibiscus that I stuck in there.
And I brought that from a neighbor, I don't have tropical hibiscus, mine are hardy hibiscus.
So I had to go over to the neighbor and really kinda snuck over and took some cuttings, I
was actually pruning, it needed pruning, but anyway, I took some cuttings, and by the time
I got back to the house, it had wilted.
And I'm thinking, 'cause it didn't have water or anything, and I'm thinking, man I don't
know if that'll make it.
But I got it quickly and I did my little greenhouse thing, and within a day, it had straightened
up.
And see these, I had these on here 'til I got here, so see you can see the moisture
that's collected in there, that keeps it moist until the roots come out.
And then when it has rooted, then you can take it inside in the little pot, or you can
repot it, or you can do whatever, but the trick is to put it in the right place in the
house to get it through the winter because it's not gonna just grow like crazy because
it's not gonna get exactly the right conditions probably, unless you've got a greenhouse you
can put it in.
You'd probably wanna put it in a window that can get some really good early morning light,
or middle afternoon light.
And it'll probably do just really, really well, through the winter, and then you can
take it out in the spring and by the next this time of year you can just do the cycle
over again.
And perpetuate your favorite plants, you know, and if you've got, some of these cultivars
of some of these coleus, you find one, and there was one called Arkansas Sunset, several
years ago, that they quit having now.
And it was absolutely gorgeous.
It was like orange and yellow, looked like a sunset.
And you can't find it anymore, and I've had several people ask me, "Where can we find
it?"
So that's a way to keep the plants that sometimes they quit, discontinue, to offer.
Keep 'em going, your heirlooms.
- [Chris] That's a good idea, sure is.
- Yeah.
- We appreciate that, that's good stuff.
If you're like me, yeah, at the end of the season, like, oh man I hate to take that out
of the ground, 'cause I can't bring it in the house.
- And as horticulture people we get asked that sometimes.
"I got this favorite plant, you know, and it's tender "and I don't have room for it
to drag it in, "what can I do to propagate it?"
And some of 'em I'll even root in water, but I like to put 'em in soil.
- [Chris] Think that's good.
- Yeah, just seems to work better for me.
- All right, thanks for that good information.
- Sure.
- Appreciate ya.
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