White Sage pruning part 2, Salvia apiana
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Wondering what to do with those spent stems after your initial flower spike pruning of White Sage? Learn here in this video🙂.
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This is great but I can't find White Sage pruning #1 video
Thank you. I’ll look into that
I have this plant and it has grown so much over the past year and a half! It is almost five feet tall now. What is the best way to prune it so that it doesn't get overgrown? If it seems like it's getting too large in diameter, can I remove a few of the stems on the outside of the plant? If so, would the best way to do this be in a two step process over a couple weeks? Thanks!
Sounds like a healthy plant! You’ve got the write idea. Just don’t prune more than a third of the plant in one session and don’t prune in wet weather. Use clean shears and cut on downward angles at leaf nodes. If you’re planning on using for smudging, later in the summer is a good time to harvest as the plant leaves will have less water and be more concentrated in the leaf oils. To shape it requires a bit of patience, prune it by a third, wait till it starts pushing lower leaf growth, then you can prune it again and so on. Just make sure that the lower stems are pushing new leaves before you prune it back more👍🙂🌿
Hi. I have been searching for years for advice on how to prune and care for my white sage plant. I had to ask for help and they found your video. I saw the 2 videos but neither actually showed any pruning. The first one just mentioned pruning before flowering but not how to do it. Then I see a second video with a plant already deflowered(I guess) then you instruct us to cut those stick parts. So I still feel very lost.
My plant is about 15 feet in diameter in some places and in summer the flower parts grow to be up to 6ft tall. It has now grown into my driveway walk way. So I park my car and there is now room to walk😂 due to the plant curving into the walking space. Always smells great when we push by.
So I want to prune it back but the bees are currently really enjoying the flowers so I can't in good conscience prune until they are done with that. Is it OK to prune in summer? Not spring. It gets really hot in sacramento. So I imagine the bees will be done by Aug or September maybe? The. Do I just cut all these extra long stalks back down with the more mature large leaves or do I do something else. Sorry this was quite the ramble. I appreciate your time and help tho
Hi Hope, check out my white sage pruning video part 1; I go over pruning more in that video. Sorry, I do need to make a new video where everything is in one place in one video. Prune on downward angle above leaf nodes with clean pruning shears on a day with dry weather. Don’t prune more than a 3rd of the plant and prune in dry weather. Flower spikes that become seed spikes often die; prune off all dead flower/seed spikes and any dead branches. If you’re harvesting to make smudge sticks, summer is the best time for that as the oils in the leaves are more concentrated than they are in the cool seasons. Just try not to prune during is day before a heatwave and remember, not more than 1/3rd of plant per session. If yours is super large and you want to reduce size, you can spread out sessions. Hope this helps👍
I hope you are still monitoring your messages - I am new to grow White sage. I just cut my stalk, and now learning that I cut it too early. Will this harm my plant? Also, I have 2 male plants, one has died, the other dying. I live in Phx, AZ , they are in full sun. Watered once or twice a week. should they received more water? more shade? what would you suggest?
Hi there, your plant should be alright. You may have cut the spikes a little early, but that's actually totally fine, unless you were planning on harvesting the spikes for seed collection (which you could still do, you may just have less viable seed). If you wanted viable seed, you'd want to wait a bit until the blooms have 'just about' completely stopped for a couple of weeks; this would give the seeds more time to mature on the plant before harvest. If you see birds start to eat the seed and you plan to harvest seed, just harvest it right away as soon as you see that happen.
Salvia apiana is hemaphroditic - containing both male and female flower parts, so both of your plants are actually hermaphroditic (like most, possibly all Salvia). Their cross pollination may increase your seed yield, being that you have 2 of them near each other, but that's the only difference in it's behavior if any. If it gets hotter (which I imagine it will in AZ), you may want to increase the irrigation a little bit to maybe 3 days a week, or just an every other day schedule for the first two years during the summer. There are a lot of factors that influence this though...if the two days that you water are very deep watering, maybe you can stick to that schedule, just keep an eye on them.
In many parts of California, this plant is able to grow on it's own, but for the average home gardener, I'd give it water at least during hot summer weather for at least the first couple years, especially since they are in full sun (which is perfect, as that is what they want). I'd suggest a light layer of small wood chip mulch underneath the plant to help the soil there retain water, just don not bury the crown of your plant. The crown is the bottom stem that comes out of the ground; it's the base of the plant. All of this advice is considering that you have them planted in the ground. If you have them planted in containers, they will need a little more water (granted they are established already in those containers) and I'd move them into 'sun to part sun' if they are in containers. They are more resilient against the summer heat when they are established in the ground. Make sure the soil drains well and that water doesn't pool at the base of the plant. I hope this helps you keep your wonderful Salvia apiana's thriving and happy. I hope this helps.
there's plenty of oil in the flower clusters. do you do anything with them? i don't want to throw them away...
I've smoked the flower buds before and they're nice, but not after they've gone to seed. I don't smoke much at all though. You probably can wrap the seed pods into sage bundles, but the seeds will fall out. After harvesting seed, I like to put there spent flower spikes through my wood chipper and turn then into a lovely fragrant mulch. The oils in the mulch make it an insect pest deterrent when sprinkled beneath/ around your plants🙂🌿.
@@JasonsGreenSleeves thank you. I don't have a wood chipper though. That's a good idea!
Sorry, but please emphasize pruning at an angle, not perfectly horizontal. Why? Because moisture and microbes collect overnight on that flat surface and can infect the plant, but cutting at an angle allows that dew/ moisture to roll off. Also, make that angle away from the center of the plant, so moisture and bacteria/fungi/ whatever, does not roll right down to the center/ 'crotch' of the plant. I have been the new gardener 'coming up behind the uneducated former gardener' and it is incredible how much bad pruning I see. These are delicate living beings folks.
Thank you for the feedback Ann. I am aware of all of that. I’ve mentioned prune on a downward angle, with clean sheers, on dry day in both part 1 and part 2 of these pruning videos for Salvia apiana. I’ve done information overload in the past and while it’s useful, sometimes the key pointers get lost in the mix for people that just want to know quick how to properly prune their plants. It’s a balance we all need to strive for as content creators. Since this video is follow up, I kept it short and still mentioned what do do correctly. I mention the downward angle, clean, dry in all of my pruning videos. In Horticulture one of the biggest things to learn is that we do the best we can by nature, but by no means can we completely control it. I wouldn’t worry too much about water rolling down the plant, they’ve experienced our cool season rainfall since their existence, growing in multiple angle’s /locations in their native habitat here in California. But yes, always on an angle, with clean shears, in dry weather. It’s all important. The angle is so important to keep harmful buildup of microbes, but if they prune with proper angle, but on rainy day, it’s even worse, or pruning with contaminated sheers on rainy day, the angle wouldn’t be as relevant because the other two pointers were missed. I’m just trying to make sure the important points are covered and easy to remember for people. I’m glad to hear that some like yourself like to have even more emphasized. I’m now considering more ways to incorporate more emphasis with the quick explanation as to why in future pruning videos. I have explained this in past videos, but it doesn’t hurt to explain in all of them, so thank you for your feedback🌿.
@@JasonsGreenSleeves Jason, I am sorry, I did not mean to be rude. I have only warched one video of yours,so far. I did not know you already went over all that. Please forgive me.
No worries Ann. I am glad to hear that there’s a desire for more detail. It’s all good 👍.