Learning how to water plants to increase growth in pots, container or garden - especially how to water roots and tubers. Specialities: root growth or tuber growth of lawns, fuchsias, geraniums, dahlias and begonias.

20 January 2011

Perfect Geranium Branch Ideal For Specimen Plant

perfect geranium branch idealBalanced plants with tight growth tend to make the best specimens. The even stem thickness and shape of this geranium cutting, combined with the short internodes (distance between leaf pairs) makes it ideal.

Have removed the terminal leaves (fresh developing leaves at end of stem, where the meristems are) to induce branching and therefore bushiness. These tiny new leaves - plus any young flower buds, if present - can just be rubbed off with the thumb.

The cutting has been grown in unsterilised garden soil. Once season really gets going, will re-pot into multi-purpose compost.

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