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florist foam??'s

21 years ago

I've had good luck getting my cuttings to root in the foam--

now do I put them in small pots? into the ground? try to take the foam off? cut the foam in random vertical spaces to allow future roots to escape? if planted with the foam around stem will this encourage too much moisture thus rotting?

These are various cuttings- rosemary, lavendar, crepe myrtles, thyme, rose

Thanks for any help given.

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janw
21 years ago
I have been trying this just in the past year and have had sucess about half of the time. I start them in about 1 inch cubes of the foam and after roots are established that I can see easily I put them in 3 to 4 inch pots with a good potting soil and let them grow I do not remove the foam at all and every one has developed very well. what was your secret to getting the rose to root? I have tried several without success.
Jan
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