I personally would cut a little before C, between B & C. Then I'd take off the little leaf and stem you see between C & D and I'd scratch the area under that (below C), dip it into rooting hormone, tap it to remove the excess and put to root in the growing medium, followed by a plastic bag over it to create a green house effect (the plastic should not touch the leaves) and wait. By leaving a little stem before the area where the main roots will grow out of, you'll get some additional roots along that stem, helping it hold itself better in the soil, and it's easier to transplant.

Good luck!
Tania ~_~

Thankyou very much! That's very helpful. Any other opinions? :)

I would cut at B. This will keep the original plant looking better. You can always trim the cutting then to somewhere between B and C as Tania says and following her suggestion for rooting.

Woodenzoo has it right. Cut at 'b' leaving that stem on the bush that is growing out at that point. You don't really want to leave a stub behind that will die anyway. This stub could become a point of infection.

Then take the cutting and trim off the stub up to 'c'. Pinch off the leaf and side stem between 'c' and 'd' and also at 'e' and 'f' leaving that single leaf at the cuttings tip. From there follow Tania's advice.

Just as a side note the space between say 'a' and 'b' is called a node while the space between 'b' and 'c' is the internode. It is the nodes where the roots on most cuttings will emerge. Other plants like tomatoes will form roots along the internode space also. You'll want at least one node below ground for roots and at least one node above the soil line for leaves to emerge from.

The reason you 'bag' fresh cuttings within a pastic bag or under glass is to retain moisture. Without roots the new cutting will have a diffucult time drawing in moisture. At the same time this same cutting is losing moisture by transpiration through the leaves. Thats also why you should pinch out all the 'extra' leaves, except for the leaf at the very tip of the cutting, so as to reduce water loss through transpiration. You do want to leave at least a single leaf so the cutting can continue to make its food by photosynthesis.

Mike

Thanks Mike and Woodenzoo, good advice!