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Make sure it is typical of the plant you are taking it from. |
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Cut stem just below leaf joint and reduce leaf area by half. |
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Bottom right cutting should have been trimmed a little closer to the leaf joint. |
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Hold cutting as shown and gently push into compost so that remaining portion of leaves does not come into contact with the compost. |
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Fill container with cuttings without them touching each other. |
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Spaced out nicely. Do not forget your label. If you do not know the name even minimal information is useful. |
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Cover pot with polythene sandwich bag and using identical pot drop one pot inside the other trapping the bottom edge of bag. |
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Gently tap pot on a hard surface to secure and you will be able to lift your little propagator by the bag. |
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When your cutting has rooted pot up into the smallest pot that comfortably takes the root and when it has grown three pairs of leaves pinch out the growing tip. |
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Pinch out at this point. |
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Fingers knife or scissors will all do the job but try to do it cleanly. |
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This will now encourage each side shoot to develop, and when they reach three pairs of leaves each, pinch out in the same manner. |
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When the pot fills with roots pot on. Remove pot from plant and place inside a pot 25mm larger and fill the gap with compost. |
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Gently twist and remove smaller pot and drop in your plant. Now wait for bigger things. |
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