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    Verbena propagation

    Afternoon all.

    I knocked a new shoot off my verbena bonariensis. I stuck it in water hoping it would root. It has doubled in length but shows no sign of rooting.

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    It is possible to get a new plant from this or am I wasting my time?

    Thanks,
    MBE
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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  • #2
    propagation from cuttings is always a race between the plant forming new roots or dying first - the fact that yours is still alive makes it likely that it will eventually start growing roots, but of course there are no guarantees.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by nickdub View Post
      propagation from cuttings is always a race between the plant forming new roots or dying first - the fact that yours is still alive makes it likely that it will eventually start growing roots, but of course there are no guarantees.
      Thanks. It's not exactly a cutting as it was a new shoot I accidentally knocked off. So, just leave in the water and hope, or would it be better poked into a gritty compost mix like I might for rosemary or similar?
      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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      • #4
        Don't know about the cutting but mine self seeds everywhere. So much that I don't worry about knocking bits off it - as I often do.
        Maybe cut the top off, back to a pair of leaves and shove it in the ground wherever you want it to grow.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
          Don't know about the cutting but mine self seeds everywhere. So much that I don't worry about knocking bits off it - as I often do.
          Maybe cut the top off, back to a pair of leaves and shove it in the ground wherever you want it to grow.
          I was going to give it to a pal if it rooted, that was all.
          Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
          By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
          While better men than we go out and start their working lives
          At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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          • #6
            a pot of gritty compost and a plastic bag over the lot is the normal answer - not grown this from cuttings so none too sure if any special treatment is called for.

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            • #7
              I grow it from cuttings. And I would do as ND has suggested. Gritty compost and plastic bag...I sit mine on a heat mat to keep the temp even too. But it should be ok without in this weather.

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              • #8
                Righto, I'll give that a go thanks.
                Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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