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[Re: recalcitrant]
#4201689 - 05/20/05 10:57 PM (21 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Question for Sally growers??

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#4201990 - 05/21/05 12:27 AM (21 years, 3 months ago)

I find it necessary to take cutlings from my saliva plants all the time. If left untaimed, all plants grow like nuts with branches going everywhere.

Think of your plant like a tree, you want one strong stock coming from the botton. Therefore everytime a little one pops from the ground let it grow a little and make a cutling after say, 4-6 inches. In nature, most of these small outgrows are killed by nature. Either weather elements or other plants feast on the youth growths.

My salvia plants tend to bush like nuts. I don't mind when it spilts too two branches, but when you have 4 branches each spliting to 2 branches so you have 8 new branches on one level it is time to prune your plant. Most of the time, when caring for a plant you do pruning to strenthen your plants primary branches. The only difference with cutlings is you are not trowing away the prunings, you are making them into new plants.

I have adopted a new principle with my plants; I talk to my plants. This technique was recommended to me by a wise man here on the shroomery. In affect to talking to my plants, they communicate back to me telling me when I need to prune them. This is not a joke, you honestly just let them do the thinking and they will let you know when to prune them. They also are quite found of when they actually want to be watered, not when you want to water them.

Side note, most common probelm I see with salvia is over watering and too moist of soil for the roots. They really truely hate a moist soil, freely mix up to 50% perlite, coco coir, or whatever else that doesn't hold water with your soil. They love drier soil, they are from this habitat obviously.

Actually I find that every plant does better with drier soil actually. Otherwise the soil stays too wet, thus the plant has a weaker ability to stand up due to too much water being present in the overall plant. The only plants that might like some super abundance of water are san pedros or other succulents (note san pedro and pervian torch, aka san pedro macho are actually rare cacti that enjoy large amounts of water).

Note: I clone, do cutlings whatever you want to call it via using clonex gel to a rockwool starter cube. This works excellent with salvia plants, they love that clonex gel and the rockwool cubes.

Even more effective is the use of a aero cloner. By sticking the cutlings into a plastic box that is filled with water and a airstone connected to a airpump. Air bubbles fill the water, oxygenating the water in turn accellerating root development to phenominal levels. The key to this aero cloner is speed, developed by adapting methods of hydroponics, deep water culture to clones and cutlings. More information on how to build that aerocloner, www.overgrow.com in the faq section.

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Edited by Fluxburn (05/21/05 12:34 AM)