Propagating in water? For or against?

Granniegardener

I usually have a few containers on my kitchen windowsill with various cuttings happily rooting in them (generally when Boris, my clumsy dog, blunders into a plant, snapping bits off).

I'm about to take some cuttings from pelargoniums, euphorbia, dahlias, salvia etc and wondered how many of you use the water method over the pot method? I use both but I like the water method usually because they're in view and I don't forget about them, but online, I've read that the pot method may be more reliable.
I would love to hear your thoughts.

(BTW, I'm glad I read this through before posting it - the predictive text changed pelargoniums to polar goblins 😂😂)

Lyn

You may like to have a look at this thread, there are hundreds of plants mentioned that people have successfully rooted in water. 🙂
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1004868/plants-that-root-in-water/p1

Granniegardener

Lyn said:

You may like to have a look at this thread, there are hundreds of plants mentioned that people have successfully rooted in water. 🙂
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1004868/plants-that-root-in-water/p1

Thank you, that's very helpful 😁

fidgetbones

Wrong time of year to take dahlia cuttings. As the plant dies down, you can either pot it up and take basal cuttings in spring, or very often, as you dig it up, the tuber will split easily into two or three sections.

 I take cutting off brugmansia in the next couple of months and leave them over winter in a jar of water on the windowsill. Usually about two thirds grow roots and I then pot them on in the spring.

Buttercupdays

I've never found it necessary to take cuttings of Euphorbia, though I wouldn't anyway because of the sap. Mine spread easily by seed and by runners and it easy enough to find a small one or split the clump.

Allotment Boy

I think it depends on the plant and the time of year. Trying to take a rose cutting into water just wouldn't work, but as said  previously many others will.

Granniegardener

fidgetbones said:

Wrong time of year to take dahlia cuttings. As the plant dies down, you can either pot it up and take basal cuttings in spring, or very often, as you dig it up, the tuber will split easily into two or three sections.

 I take cutting off brugmansia in the next couple of months and leave them over winter in a jar of water on the windowsill. Usually about two thirds grow roots and I then pot them on in the spring.

It's the first year I've grown Dahlias. I always thought they looked old fashioned(!) but I must have matured and now see them as others do - gorgeous - but mine have been ravaged by snails.
I have a Dahila cutting rooting atm, courtesy of Boris, and it's doing well. Can I keep it indoors or should I pop it in the greenhouse over winter?

Granniegardener

Buttercupdays said:

I've never found it necessary to take cuttings of Euphorbia, though I wouldn't anyway because of the sap. Mine spread easily by seed and by runners and it easy enough to find a small one or split the clump.

I bought some tiny euphorbias, for pots, with pretty white flowers. I think it's called Diamond Frost. Again, I have a rooted cutting courtesy of Boris, I've potted it up and it's growing well 🙂

Fairygirl

Granniegardener said:

Buttercupdays said:

I've never found it necessary to take cuttings of Euphorbia, though I wouldn't anyway because of the sap. Mine spread easily by seed and by runners and it easy enough to find a small one or split the clump.

 I have a rooted cutting courtesy of Boris, I've potted it up and it's growing well 🙂

Perhaps, like the PM, he needs a bit  more training....

As @Buttercupdays says - you wouldn't usually take cuttings of Euphorbias. They seed, and you can divide. Much less hassle. 
All dahlias need frost protection over winter, so you'd need to do that according to size and how/where they're growing just now. Anything tiny may not survive in a cold greenhouse anyway.
It just isn't the right time of year for cuttings, as already said, so whether any of them make it may be down to luck. The euphorbia should be ok 

Granniegardener

Took a few cuttings yesterday.

Lyn

Well done, that’s the way,  hope they all root for you.