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Hi,

Can anyone give me any tips on taking fuchsia cuttings please?

Do they need to be covered by plastic bags once planted and roughly how long do they take to root?

Thanks

I've just knocked a couple of pieces off today and have put them in water pro-tem - but would also love 'informed' instruction if this is the correct way or if they should be plunged strain into compost.

i knocked a big branch off my fuchsia, and decided to make loads, so left the branch in water overnight, next day broke some smaller branches off it, dipped them in rooting powder and stuck them in the ground, 4 out of 8 pieces took, and are growing really well.

dunno if that's the right way, as it's a bit hit and miss, but i have 4 new plants so i'm happy, as they are really pretty.

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Thanks Lynda, I will certainly give that a try.

This is how I do it: I put my 10-15cm cuttings in rooting powder and then straight into the moist soil. Don't forget to water regularly. Sometimes the cuttings look like they dry out and die but new growth should appear at about the same time.

They root really easily this time of year. The topic's been covered at length previously (use your Search button)

No need for hormone rooting stuff. Just cut off a 3 inch piece below a leaf joint, remove bottom leaves and any flowers. Stand in water for a couple of weeks, and it will quickly root. Pot up into multi-purpose when a good root system is showing.

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If you don't want to take too much off the plant at any one time, you can even get non flowering branch tips to root in compost covered with a plastic bag. Don't over water, they only need to be slightly damp. 2cm length is plenty for a Fuscia cutting.

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Always take mine like Twosheds. Soft growth, cuttings around 2 or 3 inches, cut just below a leaf joint, take off lower leaves and put in a bud vase containing water, or the little plastic "shot" glasses you can get, and leave on a windowsill for a couple of weeks. You will soon see roots forming. Once you can see these, then pot the cuttings into small pots of free=draining compost. Pot on as required.

that's a bit short ! Do you mean 2 inches?

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My method of taking fuchsia cuttings is to fill a tray (6 x 10) plugs with a mixture of 50/50 mix of multipurpose compost/vermiculite.

The smaller the cuttings the better. You just need two leaves, with a growing tip.

When you think, all the growing activity is at the small tips, so the smaller the cuttings the better the chance of survival.

And rooting powder is unnecessary.

valmarg

I took fuschia cuttings for the first time this year some are just in pots in the greenhouse and some are in a little propogator outside. Ones in the propogator look a bit brighter but no real difference.

I did what Twosheds suggested but added some rooting gel for good measure as I have no idea what I'm doing really

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No T_S, even the smallest cuttings will root, as Valmarg says, two leafs and a growing tip.

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Thanks for all the advice guys, some of my cuttings look as though they may have taken.

Another question for all you experienced gardeners!

I have a medium sized Fuchsia in a tub (single flowered cerise and purple)which has overwintered for 3 years now. In spring it was a mass of flowers, so many that you could hardly see the leaves! Even with regular dead heading, it is not producing any more buds now and I am wondering if there is any type of pest that chews the tops off the shoots? I have not spotted anything obvious but it does look as though the shoots have been munched. There are also a few leaves with semi-circular cuts out of the edges.

Any advice gratefully received as I would hate to loose the plant.

You may have vine weevil dench your plant provado.

I am new board your happy shop and I adore fuchsias .

And my method of tip cuttings multi pot tips 3pirs of leavs an sI find soft tip cuttings work well for me.

I dont use rootign power plant in pot of multi purpose an dwater in put beneath bench in greenhouse or under mytrees in garden and forget an dafter about 3weeks normaly well rooted.

I also have left rooting in water and this has worked for me infact gt two tip cuttings well rooted of Lady Boothby just away to pot them up now.

I read in an article in a garden mag someone fills a container with perolite and soaks with water and plants tips to root.

Good luck .Ally what name is the name of your fuchsia.

the biggest advantage with Rooting powder is the fact that it contains a fungicide that helps reduce rotting off if you're a bit heavy handed with the watering can. but so long as you use a free draining compost you should be OK

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I didn't know that NTG. The trouble I have sometimes had with fuchsia cuttings is rust. It's a right bugbear. Shall have to use it in future.

valmarg

Ahh Rust, then you want Linsterine mouth wash can't remember which one but I can find out for you tomorrow all being well as Stafforshire Fuchsia society will be at the National Chrysanthemum show probably ( there's a subtle plug for you)

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Right then Valmarg,

I saw my man today and very nice he was too and it's any Listerine mouth wash that contains Eucolyptol & Menthol ( look at the list of ingredients) and you need to use at 10% dilution (50ml to 500ml water) I would suggest you use it as a spray and on a dull day (not that we get anything else these days ) and it will cure your Fuchsia rust problems.

Nick

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I don't use anything. I've tried rooting powder, but a lot of the time I think you don't need it. I cut the stem about 2 inches long under a node, strip off the lower leaves, nip out the tip of the stem and stick the cuttings in damp compost in a small pot with the lower leaves just on the surface. I keep the compost moist. I've had a lot of success with this!

I do the same as Adrastea and have not had one fail yet! Don't bother with rooting powder or putting them in water, waste of time. They take within a couple of weeks straight in compost.

Sorry I've not got back to you earlier ntg. Much appreciate the information, and shall use the advice.
valmarg

thats OK Valmarg, I've not been on much myself

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