Last year on GW, Carol showed propagation through root
cuttings. When is the best time of the year to try
this. Has anyone had any success with this method?
Thanks.

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-05-31 21:24:56 +0100, "Bertie Doe"
said:

Last year on GW, Carol showed propagation through
root cuttings. When is the best time of the year to
try this. Has anyone had any success with this
method? Thanks.

After it's finished flowering and the leaves begin to
go, Ray suggests.
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Sacha

Thanks Sacha, I'll give it a whorl.

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-06-01 09:51:45 +0100, "Bertie Doe"
said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-05-31 21:24:56 +0100, "Bertie Doe"
said:

Last year on GW, Carol showed propagation through
root cuttings. When is the best time of the year
to try this. Has anyone had any success with this
method? Thanks.

After it's finished flowering and the leaves begin
to go, Ray suggests.
--
Sacha

Thanks Sacha, I'll give it a whorl.

;-)) Very good! You'll be starting another pun
thread!
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Sacha

Rusty would reply : "puns in the potting shed, surely".

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:58:18 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2010-06-01 09:51:45 +0100, "Bertie Doe" said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-05-31 21:24:56 +0100, "Bertie Doe" said:

Last year on GW, Carol showed propagation through root cuttings. When
is the best time of the year to try this. Has anyone had any success
with this method? Thanks.

After it's finished flowering and the leaves begin to go, Ray suggests.
--
Sacha

Thanks Sacha, I'll give it a whorl.

;-)) Very good! You'll be starting another pun thread!

Whirled's gone mad!

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On 2010-06-01 11:40:34 +0100, ®óñ© © ²°¹°
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:58:18 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 2010-06-01 09:51:45 +0100, "Bertie Doe"
said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-05-31 21:24:56 +0100, "Bertie Doe"
said:

Last year on GW, Carol showed propagation
through root cuttings. When
is the best time of the year to try this. Has
anyone had any success
with this method? Thanks.

After it's finished flowering and the leaves
begin to go, Ray suggests.
--
Sacha

Thanks Sacha, I'll give it a whorl.

;-)) Very good! You'll be starting another pun
thread!

Whirled's gone mad!

(pinched from elsehwere) I'm hoping for whirled peas.
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Sacha

Update should anyone gurgle this fred. Took 9 root
cuttings from 3 parent plants and 8 sprouted. No
rooting powder used. I added 2 cups from the compost
heap to half a bucket of allotment soil. The 5" dia
pots (in coldframe) sit in 2" sand, so only need to
water once per week.
Cautionary note - the new leaves emerged in mid August,
but didn't develop hair or their usual crinkly edges,
for another couple of weeks. In fact, they look ed a
bit like weeds!!! Here's today's pic :
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...edlings001.jpg

"Sacha" wrote in message
On 2010-10-05 17:13:59 +0100, "Bertie Doe" said:


Update should anyone gurgle this fred. Took 9 root
cuttings from 3 parent plants and 8 sprouted. No
rooting powder used. I added 2 cups from the compost
heap to half a bucket of allotment soil. The 5" dia
pots (in coldframe) sit in 2" sand, so only need to
water once per week.
Cautionary note - the new leaves emerged in mid
August, but didn't develop hair or their usual
crinkly edges, for another couple of weeks. In fact,
they look ed a bit like weeds!!! Here's today's pic
:
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...edlings001.jpg

Lovely, healthy plants - clever you. I'm glad it
worked. Apparently it's the only way to propagate
Patty's Plum, which is one of the most beautiful
colours going, IMO.
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Haven't got that one, although I have got some plums
grown from T & M seed. The cuttings are from the
garden - white, peach and pink. All the surplus end up
on the allotment (50 yards away) ....
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ies2010003.jpg

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Lovely, healthy plants - clever you. I'm glad it worked. Apparently
it's the only way to propagate Patty's Plum, which is one of the most
beautiful colours going, IMO.


I have seen a variety of colours going under the label Patty's Plum!

Try moving the plant as well, you get one plants plus quite a lot of
new ones from any bits of root left in the ground!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article ,
Janet writes
In article ,
says...


I have seen a variety of colours going under the label Patty's Plum!

So have I ; all of them (in Scotland) so muddy and dull I still can't
work out why people rave about it.

I have wondered if soil type or temperature significantly affects the
colour.

Janet


We wondered if it was because it was such a popular poppy that some were
being sold under the name because of the popularity!
I have seen some stunning correct plants but also some disappointing
murky ones! I am sure Sacha sells only the correct one
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Sacha
writes
Bit like Cephalaria gigantea. That positively thrives on root
disturbance or attempts to get rid of it!


That's one plant that we can always shift on the NGS day in may They are
always in flower and do look marvellous in big clumps.
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk