Thread: Cloning?
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Old April 5, 2018   #19
SueCT
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I haven't propagated anything in years, but when I did, I always found they did better being stuck directly into soil, preferably with a little rooting hormone. When I tried to start in water everything grew root pretty readily but would then wilt severely when transplanted into soil. They seemed to go through a kind of transplant shock and sometimes didn't make it at all.

I prefer propagation, which is the term that has been used for this for as long as I have been alive, although I suppose the word clone is more attention getting. Makes it sound much more scientifically complicated than sticking a cutting in water or soil, lol.
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