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if you're like most gardeners you've got that special Geranium out in the garden that
you're growing all summer long and it looks outstanding
but you hate to let see it succumb the fall frost so what do you do
dig it up put it in a pot and bring it indoors for joy over the winter
but then there comes a time when I think you should take a look at this plant and say
okay well
it may be doesn't look the best because it's obviously got stressed a little
because of lack of light and the low attention to grooming
but while you're grooming think about how many more plants you can make from this
one
stock plant and geranium cuttings are really easy to make. if you take a look at this plant
right here
we can take and remove cuttings off this thing. let's say we take that off there
and this off of here and basically take this plant and start to bring it down
to a certain size that's going to be really good to put back in the garden
while the same time we have all this material
which are potentially new geraniums and so how would you take a geranium cutting very
simply
we take a look at this piece I have cut off over here
and this piece has several potential geranium cuttings
and they are nothing more than small pieces
of the original plant. now before these actually become
good cuttings what you need to do is think about removing all the leaves and
portions of the plant that are going to be below the soil media that you have been using
do not stick a cutting that has any
form of flowers buds or anything resembling flowers take it all off
they don't need to be huge better off they are small. I like to take geranium
cuttings and you can do one or two things with it. can take these things
and dip them in some rooting powder which will help to
enhance the rooting potential or not use rooting power just takes little bit longer for
it to root
but I also like to let the geranium cuttings callous over or harden up a bit so I would
take these cuttings and put them someplace
on a counter and let them dry for a day or two and then
I would take a pot or container
filled with again a potting media. this media is anything that you can buy at most of the
home centers that kinda shops
and basically take the cutting, push it into the media
line this whole pot with those small cuttings and then
water well and if you want
take and put this into a zip-lock plastic bag or cover with a piece of
plastic to maintain humidity
keep it out of direct light. Keep it someplace where it gets bright light but not
direct light
and then check it daily make sure that this is moist
you might need to take the cover off to let air circulate through there
but within about maybe 10 to 14 days
you should start to see roots form on this cutting
and the way that you can tell the cutting has roots is basically if you tug on it
and if it tugs back, more likely it has got roots and then you let the plant
develop a nice set of roots take it out of the
cutting flat and put it into its individual pot and grow in on and put it back outdoors