I have had my DD for about 7 mos. It has some sort of rot on the bottom stem even though it hasn't been overwatered etc. It looked like it had, had a stem cut off and rot had entered somehow when I got it. It doesn't look like stem blight in any way. I looked at lots of photos of SB. Anyhow, it looks crappy and is doing so poorly, I finally decided to cut it above that area last night. What I ended up with are two woody cuttings. I haven't rooted this one before so need to know what the best way is.
They are just in water now.

Should I do perlite and bottom heat instead? Is this one hard to root?

Sure dont want to completely lose it.

Maybe root one in water & the other with the perlite method you mentioned? Mine was an over-winter cutting from last fall...like all the rest, I rooted it in water then planted it in a MG potting mix blend & kept it by my living room window thru my dark & dreary winter months.

I trimmed a few brugs about 4 weeks ago & stuck the 17 cuttings in jars of water. They all nubbied up very quickly & a few days ago I potted them up. We're still in an active growth time of year, so the brugs seem to be very willing to root. Just to explain my reasoning, I've found that in my climate, brugs with multiple trunks take too long to reach the blooming stage. So I've started reducing the number of trunks per plant to channel the energy into just a few. Another benefit - in many cases, flowers are displayed better when there are no more than 2-3 trunks.



Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

I had no problems rooting Daydreams in water.But mine was like Patrick.Was in the fall/ winter.My piece I broke durring the grow season I just stuck in water a few days then stuck in a pot of potting mix.I generally don't have problems rooting things...its the finding locations for things rooted that we run into problems.
Woody will root easier than still green(though I think my broke piece was green at the time)

Njoy


SE TX Z8b
Coastal~Tyler Co TX










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Thanks Patrick and Joy:) I checked the cuttings that were in water, this morning and one already has little nubbies! Now as long as the tops don't rot, they should be good. I ususally don't have much trouble rooting brugs either but wasn't sure about this one, since I hadn't rooted it before. I just rooted 3 cuttings of NOL a few weeks ago and boy did those root fast!

You know, Lenette, I think we've all had green cuttings & watched them shrivel from the top down, eventually having to toss them out. One of my recent cuttings started doing that & I just nipped the top off, down to firmer tissue. That was about a week ago & the cutting is starting to root & there's no further shriveling.

Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems like a cutting that starts to shrivel at the top will continue to shrivel back unless the shriveling portion is removed. Anyone have thoughts on this?

Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

I read somewhere that you should cut 6 inches under the shriveled part.
Ha if I did that to some of my cuttings I wouldn't have much left! Maybe they meant on a mature large brug.
I agree that it seems like if you cut off the shriveled part at least a little ways under it, it seems to quit. I have been experimenting with pruning seal on the tops of some cuttings that did that and I had to cut the tops back. It seems to help somewhat.

I also recently tried some aquarium charcoal that I pulverized with the mortar/pestle into a fine powder. I put some of this on the top of Earth Angel that I had to cut that had a stem that was shriveling at the top. It has only been a week but I don't see any more shriveling on that one. In the past I have tried cinnamon which is supposed to have natural anti fungal properties. I had so/so results with that.



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