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Vermiculite One

Use of stem cutting and rooting hormone to grow your plants

A good gardening tip is that you can make plants more your existing house and garden plants. This will cut out the cost of buying a new house and garden plants. Look around for healthy plants to take stem cuttings from to plant in a mixture of peat moss with rooting hormone. This is called the mother plant. Make sure the mother plant has enough stems for cutting does not kill the mother plant.

If you start your house and garden plants of stem cuttings instead of seeds it will take half the time to take root. There are just some things you'll need: a mother plant, an apartment in a potting mixture of peat moss, a sharp knife or razor blade, rooting hormone, containers for holding water and rooting hormone, alcohol, pencil or a stick and a plastic bag.

Common sense tells you that you should take a stem cutting from the plant thickest non-flowering green stems. The place where the leaf attaches to the stem, known as the node are the best place for you to take the thin rod. The growth of plants rooting hormones are concentrated there. Choose green, non-woody stems to take stem cuttings the mother plant. Newer growth is easier to root than woody stems.

Cut with a sterile instrument, or a sharp knife or a razor blade, just below the knot and then make another cut tilted about two or three inches above the plant. This should provide you a stem cutting about three inches in length with two or three knots. Cut the side shoots and remove most of the leaves leaving a little from the cut stem sheets will need to provide food. Any large leaves should be removed from their wilting stresses the stem cutting and will certainly slow the process rooting.

With your sterilized instrument to make a clean break in the bottom node. The roots to be formed from the node cut.

Fill a clean jar or container with a potting mix of peat moss to hold your cuttings for rooting. Using a peat moss potting mix you are giving the plant an atmosphere where the cup will remain moist but not wet and sloppy.

You can make Your Own blend of foam peat, here are some recipes:

1 / 2 sand and 1 / 2 peat moss or
1 / 2 perlite and 1 / peat moss or 2
1 / 2 sand and 1 / 2 or vermiculite
1 / 2 perlite and 1 / 2 or vermiculite
Equal parts sand, perlite, vermiculite or peat moss instead of vermiculite.

Start by soaking the bottom inch of the stem cutting in water and rooting hormone. This will help accelerate the creation of roots. Rooting hormone stimulates the stem cutting to send out new roots from the node. You will need to dip the cuttings in water, then growth hormone. Shake off the excess to endanger not your success with this cut stem. If, after you have finished your cuttings you have some rooting hormone left, throw it out. Once the cut stem is affected growth hormone is activated.

Moisten the peat moss potting mixture and poke holes in it to meet your plants. By making holes in the peat moss with the rooting pencil or stick that will ensure that growth hormone is on the front, not on the surface of the potting mix. This will improve the chances of rooting stem cuttings and creating new house or garden plants. Having successfully placed on the stem cutting in the middle, gently press the potting mix around it. You should plant your cuttings 4-5 inches apart to accommodate traffic air and room to root.

Place the container in a plastic bag and put it in a warm place in the house. The reason for the bag is to keep cuttings in high humidity and keep in heat. You create a mini greenhouse that takes up very little space. Do not seal the bag you need to allow traffic air. Only after you see new growth should the cuttings be placed in a sunny area. Check your cuttings. If the bag shows condensation you're probably giving him too much moisture. Remove the bag and let it dry a little.

The way to test for growth new roots is to gently pull on the plant after a few weeks. If there is resistance that plants are ready to be transferred into pots individual. Now you have a new plant you have grown from the mother plant.

Now use all these gardening tips and grow some new plants using stem cuttings.

Happy Gardening!

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