Hi Dee and Carol!!! I have a question I've wrestled with for quite a while. My neighbor has a Rose of Sharon that she said her mother started from a cutting by just snipping off a branch and putting it into water. I have tried this several, several times. I have also tried dipping the end into rooting hormone and covering the pots with plastic bags to keep the humidity up. All these efforts were last summer and fall. I have just taken a new cutting in hopes that with only buds and no leaves, it will finally grow roots for me. Do you have any other suggestions? Many thanks from Jan Dodson in Oklahoma City.
Jan, I'd try a cutting in late spring/early summer, a nice fresh cutting and see if that roots for you. I think that's the best time to take the cuttings. Other than that, I don't have any other advice. Around here, Rose of Sharon can pop up from seeds, but no telling what those seedlings' flowers will look like when they get to be the right size to flower!
Hi Dee and Carol!!! I have a question I've wrestled with for quite a while. My neighbor has a Rose of Sharon that she said her mother started from a cutting by just snipping off a branch and putting it into water. I have tried this several, several times. I have also tried dipping the end into rooting hormone and covering the pots with plastic bags to keep the humidity up. All these efforts were last summer and fall. I have just taken a new cutting in hopes that with only buds and no leaves, it will finally grow roots for me. Do you have any other suggestions? Many thanks from Jan Dodson in Oklahoma City.
Jan, I'd try a cutting in late spring/early summer, a nice fresh cutting and see if that roots for you. I think that's the best time to take the cuttings. Other than that, I don't have any other advice. Around here, Rose of Sharon can pop up from seeds, but no telling what those seedlings' flowers will look like when they get to be the right size to flower!