Well, I've done something similar. Had overgrown plants from cuttings taken last season, now growing under lights, and decided to take further cuttings and stick them. About 8 or 9 of Marie Boisselot, in a propagator tent on a heating mat, have started to send out small new leaves and some roots (I use transparent square plastic 2 1/2" pots). No reason to think they won't be ready for larger pots for growing on in the spring. Won't set them in the garden until spring 2012.

That sounds hopeful. Thanks for replying. Transparent pots - clever. I can't tell if there are roots unless they poke out the bottom or I take them out. So far all I can say for certain is that they are not wilting. Fingers crossed.

St Paul, eh? I'm afraid my knowledge of your area is limited to Garrison Keillor and Fargo. But I'm imagining it's pretty chilly at the moment?

Best wishes, Flora

The easiest way I have found to proapgate new plants from the parent plant is to take and I do this in the spring on my many of my two's before I even trim them is I take a long vine and untangle if need be and bring the long vine down to the ground and bury a section of the vine. I let it grow like that for a while then once I see the end section growning well I then begin pitching out the bud so the root system develops, I curently have 3 I have done this to this month.The key is to pitch out the buds often. The buried section will send out new roots and then in the summer or fall I go back and cut and dig up the section and I then have a new baby plant from the parent plant with its own root system. About two weeks ago my mom and I was out looking at some of my clematis and mom wanted some of my 6 year old Miss Bateman and there was a bunch of new shoots coming up about a 1/2 foot from the base of my Miss.Bateman, we dug down and found a huge root system attached to the new shoots and mom potted up the section and it never even wilted she said.

The easiest way I have found to proapgate new plants from the parent plant is to take and I do this in the spring on my many of my two's before I even trim them is I take a long vine and untangle if need be and bring the long vine down to the ground and bury a section of the vine. I let it grow like that for a while then once I see the end section growning well I then begin pitching out the bud so the root system develops, I curently have 3 I have done this to this month.The key is to pitch out the buds often. The buried section will send out new roots and then in the summer or fall I go back and cut and dig up the section and I then have a new baby plant from the parent plant with its own root system. About two weeks ago my mom and I was out looking at some of my clematis and mom wanted some of my 6 year old Miss Bateman and there was a bunch of new shoots coming up about a 1/2 foot from the base of my Miss.Bateman, we dug down and found a huge root system attached to the new shoots and mom potted up the section and it never even wilted she said.