It's not quite as hard as they'd have you believe.
Back around April, our triple yellow (D. metel chlorantha) had two tall stems that were very thin and required stakes to hold them up. We decided to cut them off and since they were there, I decided to throw them into a cup.
We started out with 5 cuttings, 2 rotted right away. The third rooted, but after I split it out of the cup, it got way too wet, roots rotted. The fourth and fifth took a little longer to grow roots. This is them on August 3rd, when I decided it was time for them to come out of the plastic cup.


Here's the biggest one now, getting ready to move into a bigger pot. The other is still alive, but started getting too wet, so I have it sitting in a safer place, away from the rain and where I can keep a closer eye on it.


I still can't believe any of them grew roots... now I'm just waiting for a flower.

Lynne
USDA Zone 9b
Heat Zone 10
Bradenton, Florida

You are the first person I have heard that had any sucess getting Datur cuttings to root Lynne,



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Zone 5b

Lynne,
You must have the magic touch, I tried many, many times to root daturas before I read that they were only propagated by seeds. Congratulations, I think this is a major accomplishment!

Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon

Thanks Ruth Ann and Michele, but I know I'm not the first.
There's the guy at ABADS, Rich Sanders. It looks like he wrote most (all?) of their Datura pages. On one page he says he's rooted cuttings of metel and inoxia.
I wonder if anyone has rooted any of the other species....

Michele, if you decide to try again, only water them when they get really, really dry. I have a feeling that helped keep them from going mushy.

Lynne
USDA Zone 9b
Heat Zone 10
Bradenton, Florida