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Molamola wrote: OK, #1 is that the donor plant must be totally well watered. Turgid is the word. It's been raining a lot here for a couple of days.
I cut old woody stems about eight inches long. I did this just before sunset, by the way. Dip just the bottom, the cut, in rooting powder, and put into a moist mix of 1/2 pearlite and peat. Or is it called vermiculite? The snow white stuff, not the shiny brown stuff. But either might do. Loose and fluffy, anyway.
I had the mix about two inches deep in a leftover plastic bag that held 20 rolls of paper towels( I save EVERYTHING!) in a plastic crate.
So all the cuttings are in the big plastic bag that lets light in, and I set this in a corner, no direct sun, of my back porch. The top of the bag was just loosely rolled closed. I checked every few days for growth, and it took about two weeks.
I'm going to keep a closer eye on this second batch, done last night when the moon was in Scorpio, because I'd prefer potting them up when they just barely get going. I'd heard the roots are brittle, and I found some topless root bunches in the mix when I was finished with the first potting, oops!! One bit was a cluster about four inches across. I felt bad. Owell!
The tough part is making sure the cuttings are right side up! OK.
Oh, I saw someone in a nursery starting cuttings that were little tangles of limbs, about three inches across. He was dipping them in Rootone, and putting them in a seed starter tray, about 1/4 cup of peat for each cutting.
