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Rooting suckers

16 years ago

One of my chimeras (Petunia) has a small sucker on it. I would like to root it to get another plant to trade or give away. My question is: How big should a sucker be before it is cut from the parent plant? The leaves on the sucker are currently about 1/4 the size of the mother plant.

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nwgatreasures
16 years ago
Hi, Snappyguy,

My general rule of thumb is that the leaves need to be as big as a thumbnail before removing...they need to have enough surface space to take in light for photosynthesis once repotted/started.

Dora
snappyguy
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm still getting used to growing leaves and suckers and really want this one to work. I'll let it get bigger before I try and root it.
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