Fuchsia cuttings

[ally866]

Hi,

Can anyone give me any tips on taking fuchsia cuttings please?

Do they need to be covered by plastic bags once planted and roughly how long do they take to root?

Thanks

[quark1]

I've just knocked a couple of pieces off today and have put them in water pro-tem - but would also love 'informed' instruction if this is the correct way or if they should be plunged strain into compost.

[lynda66]

i knocked a big branch off my fuchsia, and decided to make loads, so left the branch in water overnight, next day broke some smaller branches off it, dipped them in rooting powder and stuck them in the ground, 4 out of 8 pieces took, and are growing really well.

dunno if that's the right way, as it's a bit hit and miss, but i have 4 new plants so i'm happy, as they are really pretty.

[ally866]

Thanks Lynda, I will certainly give that a try.

[Edelweiss]

This is how I do it: I put my 10-15cm cuttings in rooting powder and then straight into the moist soil. Don't forget to water regularly. Sometimes the cuttings look like they dry out and die but new growth should appear at about the same time.

[Two_Sheds]

They root really easily this time of year. The topic's been covered at length previously (use your Search button)

No need for hormone rooting stuff. Just cut off a 3 inch piece below a leaf joint, remove bottom leaves and any flowers. Stand in water for a couple of weeks, and it will quickly root. Pot up into multi-purpose when a good root system is showing.

[terrier]

If you don't want to take too much off the plant at any one time, you can even get non flowering branch tips to root in compost covered with a plastic bag. Don't over water, they only need to be slightly damp. 2cm length is plenty for a Fuscia cutting.

[nick the grief]

Have a look here

fuchsia-cells

[rustylady]

Always take mine like Twosheds. Soft growth, cuttings around 2 or 3 inches, cut just below a leaf joint, take off lower leaves and put in a bud vase containing water, or the little plastic "shot" glasses you can get, and leave on a windowsill for a couple of weeks. You will soon see roots forming. Once you can see these, then pot the cuttings into small pots of free=draining compost. Pot on as required.

[Two_Sheds]

2cm length is plenty for a Fuscia cutting.

that's a bit short ! Do you mean 2 inches?

[valmarg]

My method of taking fuchsia cuttings is to fill a tray (6 x 10) plugs with a mixture of 50/50 mix of multipurpose compost/vermiculite.

The smaller the cuttings the better. You just need two leaves, with a growing tip.

When you think, all the growing activity is at the small tips, so the smaller the cuttings the better the chance of survival.

And rooting powder is unnecessary.

valmarg

[FionaH]

I took fuschia cuttings for the first time this year some are just in pots in the greenhouse and some are in a little propogator outside. Ones in the propogator look a bit brighter but no real difference.

I did what Twosheds suggested but added some rooting gel for good measure as I have no idea what I'm doing really

[terrier]

that's a bit short ! Do you mean 2 inches?

No T_S, even the smallest cuttings will root, as Valmarg says, two leafs and a growing tip.

[ally866]

'blind' fuschia

Thanks for all the advice guys, some of my cuttings look as though they may have taken.

Another question for all you experienced gardeners!

I have a medium sized Fuchsia in a tub (single flowered cerise and purple)which has overwintered for 3 years now. In spring it was a mass of flowers, so many that you could hardly see the leaves! Even with regular dead heading, it is not producing any more buds now and I am wondering if there is any type of pest that chews the tops off the shoots? I have not spotted anything obvious but it does look as though the shoots have been munched. There are also a few leaves with semi-circular cuts out of the edges.

Any advice gratefully received as I would hate to loose the plant.

[Scotkat]

You may have vine weevil dench your plant provado.

I am new board your happy shop and I adore fuchsias .

And my method of tip cuttings multi pot tips 3pirs of leavs an sI find soft tip cuttings work well for me.

I dont use rootign power plant in pot of multi purpose an dwater in put beneath bench in greenhouse or under mytrees in garden and forget an dafter about 3weeks normaly well rooted.

I also have left rooting in water and this has worked for me infact gt two tip cuttings well rooted of Lady Boothby just away to pot them up now.

I read in an article in a garden mag someone fills a container with perolite and soaks with water and plants tips to root.

Good luck .Ally what name is the name of your fuchsia.