I need help taking a geranium cutting. I have tried soooo many times. what am i doing wrong?
Question:does anyone know where there is a video or images of exactly where to cut and how?
Answers:
Belize Missionary is correct about letting them dry at the wound site--this is due to rot setting in other wise--then you would notice that your plant stem will get mushy then "croak".
I just stick them in moist soil - but not soaking. They usually root in about a week or two--but don't peak in the soil because you may dislodge the new little root hairs. Make sure you keep off any little flower buds so that all the stimulation is going to growing roots. After you get the knack, you'll find geranium propagation to be a breeze. Good luck!
You should harvest a cutting about 6 inches long, and doesn't have a flower or flower bud on it (flowering drains energy from it). It should be leafy, and have at least a couple of leaves near the base. Snip those lower leaves off, the buds will be where the roots grow from. Set the cutting in a cup of water, and don't let it dry out. Indirect light, and lots of it. Once roots form, stick it in potting soil and keep it moist. It'll take several weeks.
just take a cutting, leave it laying around for a couple of days (yes -really!), strip off all the lower leaves, put in a pot of clean soil and water well. keep moist and the cutting should root in a few days.
an alternative method would be to take a cutting, put it in a bottle of water and allow it to root. this works best if you use something like the bottom of a plastic liter bottle. when the geranium begins to root you can add a little bit of soil to the container. gradually add more and more. eventually you cutting will be growing in soil, though it was rooted in water.
hope this helps.and i am very serious about allowing the geranium to dry for a day or so before planting. :)
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