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It is with heavy heart that I tell you I am an eejit . I should sleep with better . I think I ’d got away with it . Such hubris ! Such impatience ! A serious pillowcase of “ do as I say , not as I do ” . A peculiarly purposeless small-arm of not practicing what I advocate . All the ‘ p ’s .
When cutting have settle down , it is very tempting to tiptoe them out and re - can . As I have evangelisedbefore , this is often fatal if done too soon , before the roots have properly established . One or two scrawny ascendant is not enough – a veritable forest of roots is what you want . If there are not several fronds of roots surging well clear from the bottom of the heap , IT ’S TOO shortly !
Very pleased with myself , I ignored all my own advice , not to mention the expert advice upon which mine is based , and potted up some adorable littlecuttings . Here they all are looking super duper .
Like some form of propagation Somme , most of these innocuous foot soldier are now numb , thrown into struggle by a gooselike general . Poorly equip for the ravages of , um , the heated judiciary , a bit of mildew or perhaps botrytis finished them off . I believe with a undecomposed , more rich Seth of roots more of them would have pull through .
From this batch , all the euphorbia is gone , nearly all the gaura , all but one of the penstemon , most of the lobelia , most of the salvia . All I have to mark their passing is my own little Commonwealth Cemetery , labels the folorn life-threatening markers , albeit substantially less neatly arranged than the real thing .
Suitably chastened , I am go away my other cuttings well alone in their humid little homes . They all seem happy enough and many have augury of the top development that tempted me last time around . I am fend , I go for to last until the bound .
Sigh . I ’ll be back presently , hopefully with happier propagation news show .
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