My neighbors cut down some bushes in their front yard. I suspected that one of them was an azalea, and now a couple of weeks later I see its corpse on the side of the road, blooming... It WAS an azalea!!
It was a huge plant, too big for me to move and a lot of it looked dead since it's been uprooted for so long. Some of the tips were still pliable though, so I went back and cut off about 15 cuttings or so.
I have never had any real luck with rooting cuttings but I felt like I had to say least try to save this beautiful plant. I can go back tomorrow and get more cuttings if I didn't cut them right. Any advice anyone can give will be appreciated!!
If you have an aloe Vera plant then you can use the gel as a rooting hormone. Works well. When taking the cutting, cut at a 45 degree angle with clean fiskars and immediately smother the exposed tip in the gel. Remove leaves from the lower half of cutting. You actually want to use soil lacking in nutrients as over enriched soil can actually fuck things up and burn the delicate roots. I use Coco coir a bit of perlite mixed in, but also had success using sand. Keep them in a smallish pot and put a plastic bag over, keep in shade or partial sunlight. Azalea cuttings should be ready to plant after a month or two. Hope this helps
Gaelg 1 points 4.1 years ago
If you have an aloe Vera plant then you can use the gel as a rooting hormone. Works well.
When taking the cutting, cut at a 45 degree angle with clean fiskars and immediately smother the exposed tip in the gel.
Remove leaves from the lower half of cutting.
You actually want to use soil lacking in nutrients as over enriched soil can actually fuck things up and burn the delicate roots. I use Coco coir a bit of perlite mixed in, but also had success using sand. Keep them in a smallish pot and put a plastic bag over, keep in shade or partial sunlight.
Azalea cuttings should be ready to plant after a month or two.
Hope this helps