Propagation

I decided that I wanted to try to save a few of the plants I grew on my deck this year that did really well.

My mother often saved her geraniums from year to year by bringing them in and putting them on an easterly facing window in our basement and neglecting them.

So, I looked up some information on propagation on the Internet and here is my beginning.

I wanted to save a scented geranium, citronella.  It is the one with the more lime coloring and the other is a geranium which I think is Martha Washington.  A lovely pink.

I took cuttings from the mother plant, and used perlite/vermiculite and some potting soil.  Put the cuttings into some rooting hormone after removing the bottom most leaves from the stems and then made a small hole in the soil and put the cutting in.  Then, I watered and put a Ziploc bag, a used one, over top to act as a small green house and left them on my deck, partially shaded from the sun.

That was several weeks ago and they seem to have rooted.  If you give them a small tug, you can't pull them out of the soil.  There is some new growth, so the roots must be doing their job and I think I successfully did mine for this propagation.

By propagating your plants that you have, you can save money the following season, because you don't have to purchase new plants.  At least, that is my hope with these plants for next year.

I am not the best "indoor" plant person, so we'll see if they last the winter.