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From: kolling@magic.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: rooting geranium (and other) cuttings
Message-ID: <1084@magic.DEC.COM>
Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 20:42:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: magic.1084
Posted: Sun Sep 14 20:42:14 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Sep-86 09:05:12 EDT
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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Someone was asking about rooting geranium cuttings.  Here's a
tidbit from a garden column in today's NY Times:

question: Grandmother always rooted coleus and geraniums in water,
but insisted in using a vase made of green glass;  my cuttings do
not root in clear glass.  Was she right or was she lucky?

answer:  Probably grandmother was right as colored glass -- green
or brown -- seems to shade stems from strong light exposure and
roots develop quickly.  Clear glass rooting is successful if
geranium cuttings, particularly, are allowed to dry off overnight
so cut ends form a callus.  Keep any cuttings in a bright -- not
sunny -- location and be sure to change the water every few days
until roots form.  Begonia and impatiens cuttings can also be
rooted in water.