I’ve kept a couple of geraniums alive summer and winter for so long I can’t remember. In summer they live on the deck; in winter in a sunny window. In the spring I take them out of their pots and trim the roots back (as you would a bonsai) and replace them in their pots with a bit of fresh potting soil. I also start cuttings like you. I root them in water before transplanting.
Love this video Steve, no nonsense, just pure down to earth. This is what to do kinda video 👍 I'm now subscribed. Here in UK it's September and I've taken some geranium cuttings but will be kept in coldish room indoors. With any other of my plants that I over winter. Will cuttings be ok or should I left it until spring ?
Hey Steve, Dennis from Saskatchewan, nice to see your video. I don't claim to be an expert but would just like to make one comment that may help you...apparently if a cut is not clean on the stem....meaning the stem being crushed a bit or a lot instead of being cut cleanly... I understand that can cause enough damage to result in rooting failures. I just noticed that your knife did not seem too sharp( I notice those things since I used to be a knifemaker) and that you had to apply quite a bit of force to cut the stem and I suspect it may be crushing it a bit before it cuts it. I happen to have a surgical scalpel which I had for another project(available fairly inexpensively on Amazon) and it is very sharp and cuts very easily and cleanly with very little force. When propagating cuttings there are any number of small details that can contribute to individual cuttings failing to root...even minute details such as where the cut is made, how it is made and and what part of the plant is cut and on and on and any of these small details that can result in rooting failure that we can eliminate will contribute to higher rooting percentages. It appears you had good success with these.. congrats! Will watch more of your videos since I am always learning and wanting to pick up tips and tricks to be more successful in my plant endevours.
In the past, I was told to let the cuts callous-over, and very few ever rooted for me; so I gave up on it. Thanks so much for this video, you’ve shown us the way!
My problem is rotting. I have tried dirt with and without hormones. I have tried watering them well and also not watering them. I get about 1 out of 20 that don't rot.
In Centra Alberta and today I'm going to cut up my geraniums that have been growing indoors since last fall. They decided to flower 3 weeks ago but their leggy sprawl is kind of awkward 😏. I'm planning to keep the Mother plant inside year round. 🤞
I’m new to your channel,what I’ll like to know When would be the best month to take geranium cutting ? Looking forward to seeing your answer. Thank-you
Geraniums don't have a dormant period during winter, so can be taken any time during the season, but April/ May is the best time to take geranium cuttings.
hi.. can i grow them in water? i am still in winter here in the US and growing them indoors. keep my place in the low 70s day and night. also no direct light, correct? and why can they get sun?
Hi mate I've got some plant of fig, Apple, pear and a plum trees I'm interested into grow some cuttings when is the best time to grow these and which month. Thanks mate
Normally the best time to take these types of cuttings are in Spring time. The trouble with taking cuttings from the apple, pear and plum trees is they may be grown on a particular type of rootstock, say dwarf, but your actual tree will be the particular apple, say Sweet Sixteen. Your cutting will be the Sweet Sixteen, but it won't be the dwarf. If that doesnt matter then go for it!
Hi, I'm in the UK. October 3rd 2021, We have had nice warm Weather until this week in the UK. I have 8 or 10 Various Colours Of Geranium in pots Outdoors & South Facing, Can i take Cuttings in a mild UK October ? My Plan is to Take 2 Cuttings from each Colour & Place them on a UK WINTER Sunny South Facing Window Ledge. Will This work ? Over Winter .
You should still be able to take some cuttings. Just bring them into the warm and should have success, no worries :) Good luck and let me know how you get on :)
So, Geums spread by rhizomes. Their side shoots are easy to dig up and can be replanted in the garden. As they are herbaceous perennials can also be divided in spring and will set seed.
There is a difference between the two - The flowers of geranium and pelargonium are not the same. Geranium flowers have five similar petals; pelargonium blooms have two upper petals which are different from the three lower petals. Both belong to the same plant family, the Geraniaceae, and both have the same long, narrow, beak-shaped seed capsule that springs open when ripe and casts the seeds far and wide. In fact, the botanical names both refer to this phenomenon. Pelaragonium is derived from the Greek for stork, because the seed capsule is said to resemble a stork’s bill, while Geranium means crane, because it’s supposed to look like a crane’s bill. Honestly, you’d have to be a fairly serious birder to be able to tell a stork’s beak from a crane’s beak… especially if you removed the rest of the bird! The seed capsules, therefore, are essentially identical.
Geranium is what ignited my passion for gardening back when I was 16. I am now 36 years old and my neighbors call me "that crazy Geranium guy". I have a vast collection of the fragrant ones, Coca-Cola, vanilla, chocolate, cotton-candy, all sorts of varieties, and I am struggling to find enough neighbors to give cuttings haha.
Yet another geranium cutting video where at NO point is the camera actually pointing in towards the plant which is the only part that beginners need to see.. all the rest of the video is great and informative but a waste of time for for those of us that need to see the actual point of WHERE you take the cutting
