How to Propagate Edgeworthia, How to Take Cuttings of Edgeworthia, Plant Propagation
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2020
- How to Propagate Edgeworthia, How to Take Cuttings of Edgeworthia, Plant Propagation
I have featured this plant in previous videos as it is such a great, Winter flowering, shrub. It produces the flowers on bare stems, before any leaves are showing, and the flowers are so sweet in scent.
Edgworthia prefer a moist but free draining soil and are happy in full sun or partial shade. They will grow in acidic, neutral or slightly alkaline soils.
They can be propagated by soft wood cuttings but it’s so much easier to cut, and remove, the basel stems and grow them on.
Tools Required;
Clean sharp pair of secateurs
Pot
Fresh compost
Literally just cut through the side basel stems to remove them from the main plant.
Once the stem has been cut through you should, with a bit of force, be able to pull out the stem and tap root that it has produced.
Immediately pot up the new section of plant into fresh compost and keep it on the moist side.
I normally put my cuttings and juvenile plants into a more sheltered and shady position so as to reduce moisture evaporation and plant stress.
Within a couple of years the new plant will be big enough to start producing flower.
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Thanks for the video - just bought an Edgeworthia. It's a bit bare at the moment. Will probably need to wait until next summer to take basal stem cuttings
David, thanks for your message.
That’s a great plant purchase you will love it when it flowers.
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Thanks 🌼
can these propagate in water?
Hi. Thanks for your message. The honest answer is that I haven’t tried so don’t know. It would be interesting to try though. If you try then please let me know how you get on.
Does it highly scented or just light fragrance. . ?
Thanks for your message. It’s highly scented and very sweet smelling. Some of the names varieties have different shades of yellow, and there is a red flowering one, but they don’t have as strong a scent.
@@diyhomeandgardening thanks for reply..One last thing to know whether can it be planted in a hot and humid area and is that possible to get flowers if I plant it in a container.?
Not sure about humidity. It originates from China, hardy down to -10oC but will tolerate heat too. I have a grower of Edgeworthia in Italy, where it’s up to 50oC but that’s a dry heat.
Mine is in a container and they are happy there.
Worth an experiment to see on your growing conditions. I suspect the plant would be fine.
@@diyhomeandgardening great..but unfortunately here this plant not available at all..😢and thanks a lot for your info..have a great time ahead..
No problem. Not sure where you are based but what about looking on eBay or Amazon?
Have a good day
Nice, but strange way to take cuttings without... cutting! :-)
They are classed still as basal stem cuttings although they are not basal cuttings in the same vein as say you would do Dahlia basal cuttings.
The Italians only do propagation in this, almost division, method and it works really well when you don’t have great prop facilities.
Normal cutting methods for Edgewothia have a quite a low success rate and plants take forever to get going.
Could not hear or understand a word that you said with volume at 100% Sorry but I thought you should know- slower and louder would be helpful
Thanks for watching and your message.
I’m not sure what device you used but I’ve just played the video on my phone and the sound works okay.
Perhaps take a look on a different device.
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All the best with your gardening.
This was cheap. I paid $89.99 in the USA
Thanks for watching.
I’m sure the pricing is all relative? But it’s great that you own an Edgeworthia as they are just so nice.
Enjoy your gardening 😄