Last week we had 4500 unrooted cuttings arrive from Mexico. They are swaddled in plastic bags, each labeled with colour and type of plant, inside cardboard boxes with ice packs to help keep them fresh. (if anybody needs some for their lunchbox, let me know and we'll hang on to them!)
Trays with many individual cells are filled with special soil for seeding and growing those wonderful roots that keep a plant alive! The unrooted cutting is dipped into a pink powder that gives it a boost of energy, placed in the soil then watered gently every few hours until roots begin to grow. Now the cutting is able to suck up the moisture through the roots and grow it's little heart out! In a few months there will be flowers on these New Guinea impatiens the size of my palm! Grow roots grow!
Last week we had 4500 unrooted cuttings arrive from Mexico. They are swaddled in plastic bags, each labeled with colour and type of plant, inside cardboard boxes with ice packs to help keep them fresh. (if anybody needs some for their lunchbox, let me know and we'll hang on to them!)
Trays with many individual cells are filled with special soil for seeding and growing those wonderful roots that keep a plant alive! The unrooted cutting is dipped into a pink powder that gives it a boost of energy, placed in the soil then watered gently every few hours until roots begin to grow. Now the cutting is able to suck up the moisture through the roots and grow it's little heart out! In a few months there will be flowers on these New Guinea impatiens the size of my palm! Grow roots grow!
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