P.s. I meant mailing procedure?how would you go about it?
Thanks

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

Hi Ya, Lynne

Thank you, Never mailed cuttings or plants before..cool.I thought I had to root them first?
Learn something new everyday.
Nice to see you!

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

On the subject of wandering jew, I received a whole passle of the zebrina variety in an ebay purchase. They'd been growing outdoors in TX, and had already been "water rooted" by the time I got them.

A month and a half later I am down to a few sick looking bits left. When I first got them, I put them in water to buy myself more time (they came in 2 boxes packed with other stuff, much of which died... note to self: Be careful what you wish for). The zebrina also started dying pretty quickly, always from the stem end. In about a week I potted them up in potting soil outside in a pretty sheltered area and kept them watered (I know now, they don't like much sun OR much water).

As they started looking worse and worse, I brought them inside. They would have bright new growth at the tips (raising my hopes every time), but the stem end would get black and mushy or hard, with no roots. So I'd pinch off the dead stem ends and stick them back in the dirt, but the stems would slowly blacken some more and the leaves would brown and fall off, and inch by inch that cutting would disappear and the new growth would dull and die, my hopes dashed along with it. I finally looked online and learned to pinch below the leaf nodes so it could root, but they're still dying. I had one of these in the 1970s and it lasted a long time.

I'm pretty sure my biggest mistake was overwatering to begin with, but am surprised it did not recover. I haven't seen a bug on any of them. Was there anything else I should have learned from this? Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this experience. I hate killing stuff. :-(

LOL, Dodge. No, wasn't exactly rolling on the floor laughing last night. Just a general life philosophy.

Unfortunately, by the time I checked on the sprigs last night they were all deceased so now all that's left is to learn and move on. I know that one pot never did dry out, so need to find a plant that likes to be wet.

I'm going to go out and take a cutting off my new-this-year snail vine, slap it in the "doom-pot", and see what happens. There are a few other plants I'll see if I can overwinter as well, have to look them up.

Thanks for the info, though.

Thanks for the encouragement, Dodge. :-) Hey, I have family in Pittsburgh in the North Hills area, used to visit there every year but they got mad 'cause we made fun of how yinz talk. ;-)

So yesterday I put a stray snail vine off-shoot in the doom-pot of soil (I snipped it off below leaf nodes I guess, hope that's right, and took off the leaves then stuck the resultant 2-3 inches of stem in the soil). I watered it in well but not to drowning point, and put it back outside near the mother snail vine, hoping the ants and familiar environment would keep it from going into total shock (I can dream, right?). This afternoon was not too hot, got into the mid 80s, and the leaves are still green, not too droopy, so I took another stray off-shoot and put it in another wandering jew death-pot for my mother (in case they live) and put a couple of cuttings of variegated vinca in as well since I know that likes water too (that's right, she *can* be taught!).

Again with the vinca I snipped below leaf nodes - is this a rule of thumb, or am I naive to believe it's could be that simple, that most if not all plants will root better if you take a cutting below a leaf node?

Here's hoping....

roflol = rolling on floor laughing out loud... I'm such an internet geek, that's even on my license plate. Better than my first internet nickname back in (mumbles behind hand because I don't like admitting I've been online this long)... I called myself Epilady back then because I didn't like being messed with... remember those epilator thingies, the spinning coils of death? LOL, people really *didn't* mess with me! Anyway, I've lightened up with age, and roflol is what I've become.

I was born in NJ and transplanted here at age 6, before Joisey tawk became permanent (but my Pittsburgh cousins still like to rub my nose in it).

When we visit Pitt, we still come in via I70, I think all the way until we get very close to Pittsburgh, and I know it's positively beautiful in the hills before the tunnels... it blows me away every time.

Thanks again for the advice.
:-)

Terri

That is a very good possibility. I will give it one more chance (this is only the second planting I've tried in this stuff, it's a mix of old and new soils). If these all die, I will dump this soil or at least find something already established to plant in these pots, and try to get the cuttings to grow some other way. Thanks for the suggestion, Aimee.

My hope is just to get at least one annual to make it through the winter, and it sounded like the snail vine has a good chance if I can get it started.

In my eBay box I also got yellow morning glories and Grandpa Ott's MG but I'm afraid they won't set seed in time (it was foolish to try, I know that now). What are the chances I could dig them up and get them to survive the winter indoors? Has anybody tried this?

I did overwinter my plain old red geranium and it did come back in good foliage but never did rebloom; I'll give it another try this winter along with the pelargonium I bought and think is just kinda cute.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Maybe the problem is in the air or water? I had tried rose cuttings in sand a couple of years ago, had seen it on TV (I have a Mr. Lincoln rose that I would plant every square inch of my yard if I could, it smells so nice). The cuttings died a lot like the wandering jew did, some would do some sprouting but little to no roots and turned black from the stem end up; others just turned black and moldy. Either I overwatered those as well, or I guess it is possible there is a mold or fungus in the water or air or sand\soil that inhibits rooting or just plain kills (I think I used a rooting compound on these, but not sure how fresh it was, it was kind of a roughed up envelope and the nursery sales clerk did not know anything about it).

These were in the kitchen, I guess that is another possible clue to a problem. I guess I will try again now. I cannot get enough Mr. Lincoln roses.
:-)

I have not yet had this problem with house plants that are already established, although I have not planted any grown plants in these pots yet. So far the snail vines and vinca are still green and look alive outside .... so still waiting to see what will happen to them.

I may have waited too long with the geraniums, I think I only brought them out of the garage in April! I had instructions to soak them for an hour once a month, and I only remembered to do it twice from October to April... only two of the four geraniums came back for me. I have read lately not to water at all during the winter. How do you overwinter yours, Barb?

Thanks again!
Terri

sHIRLs

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dodge

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The monthly watering thing was for if you take the geraniums out of dirt and put them in a bag to overwinter... the other options given were to leave in pot, or hang up, all in very cool places. This was on *********, and from a couple of sources, but the latest information was that the watering was wrong, but I only read that this spring. So will your geraniums be taking dirt naps, just hanging out, or something else?
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Shirl, as soon as I figure out how to pick up PMs I'll be reading up on your rose props. Thank you!

sOME OF MINE ARE HUNG INSIDE AN NOT WATERED MUCH AT ALL.

OTHERS ARE IN THE BASEMENT LAYING LOW TILL ABOUT JANUARY.. NO WATER MOSTLY.

BARB

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