Cutting Cocktail Catch Up - 12 Days On

I checked on my cuttings in Water Storing Polymer Gel after 12 days when I hoped to be seeing some roots appearing.

Unfortunately, they were knocked over and replanted twice since then so I would not be surprised if progress is slow. I also think I may have been overwatering them so that some were smothered. So I salvaged what there was still proceeding happily and took some more cuttings with the aim of giving the new ones a better chance.

Contrary to my expectations, the tomato cutting has not taken root yet - there are rough white knobby bits at a node, but no actual roots yet.

Here are their progress reports:

Cutting Cocktails - Part 2

TOMATO

My tomato cuttings were shoots removed when thinning their "donor" plants:

LEMON BALM AND MINT

The Lemon Balm and Peppermint cuttings were approximately 7cm long, with all but the top sets of leaves removed. Each lower set of leaves or branch is at a node from which roots can grow - make sure you have 2 or 3 nodes "buried" in the gel.

HEN AND CHICKEN FERN

JASMINE

Normally a jasmine cutting is a length of stem that has several nodes, but these have only one node, with little root buds showing.  To keep them looking cute, I've really only included enough stem to anchor it in the gel.  Time will tell whether that give them enough chance to survive.

Jasmine drawing is from Edwards Botanical Register, Ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery Published 1829 by James Ridgway in London.  In the Public Domain. The book is available at the Internet Archive.

All photos copyright Megan Michie.