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when is the best time to take cuttings from a standard fuscia ?

Fuchsia cuttings are best taken in the Spring. Whether it be standard, or any other plants, non-flowering 'tips' are the best cutting material.

valmarg

My fuchsia cuttings are rooting well in water right now.

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can cuttings be taken now as the plant only just made it thru the winter and we dont know f it will make it thru this one

two sheds how long before fuchsia cutting root ,then wat do YOU do with them.
john thanks

I use a aeroponics propagator for Fushias (basically it sprays water onto the stems of the cutting, instead of them being in compost). They root like weeds! so I doubt you will have much problem whatever you do.

"how long before fuchsia cutting root ,then wat do YOU do with them"

Here they root in a couple of weeks, maybe a month at the most. Then I pot them in tiny pots (e.g. 2") and keep them out of direct sun and spray them several times a day to stop them drying out, or getting stressed, until their roots are sufficient to keep them going on their own.

I spray the mother plants with insecticide a week or two before taking cuttings, and I spray the cuttings with a fungicide after I have inserted them. All intended to reduce the chance that "bugs" kill them off.

You could try taking cuttings them in Perlite or similar, with, or without, hormone rooting powder; but Fushias are one of the easiest plants to root, so I wouldn't worry too much about trying to get everything "optimal".

Ye Gods Kristen, you're not exactly organic, are you?? Fuchsia cuttings root well in water, specially if they're nice soft new growth. Once the roots show I plant them into two and a half inch or 3 inch pots and keep them moist and warm(ish) - around 65 degrees is plenty warm enough. Once the roots poke out of the drainage holes of the small pot you re-pot into the next size up and away you go.