Plants that root from cuttings

[fairfarmhand]

I have in the past grown tomatoes and basil from pieces cut from a parent plant. This year I broke a few bits from my rosemary plant and they’ve grown roots in a glass of water. 
 

now I have a piece of my geranium in a glass of water.

what other plants root easily from cuttings?

[klmama]

I just read that you can regrow a new celery plant from the cut end of a store-bought bunch.  https://www.allrecipes.com/article/regrow-celery-from-scraps/  

[kbutton]

Are you looking more for food crops or plants grown to be decorative? 

The second half of this page has many methods for propagating from a parent plant.

I am currently rooting a begonia. Some of my succulents are very easy to root from leaves. Most houseplants and many flowers are really easy to root from cuttings. Most perennials planted outside can be divided in the spring.

[fairfarmhand]

1 minute ago, kbutton said:

Are you looking more for food crops or plants grown to be decorative? 

The second half of this page has many methods for propagating from a parent plant.

I am currently rooting a begonia. Some of my succulents are very easy to root from leaves. Most houseplants and many flowers are really easy to root from cuttings. Most perennials planted outside can be divided in the spring.

Any and all plants. And I think you may have forgotten the link?

[mathnerd]

Green onion bottoms: put in a glass of water and it roots in a few days.

Others that I have rooted easily:

Lemongrass stalks from the fresh lemongrass bought at chinese grocery store

Thyme, Rosemary and Oregano cuttings from potted herb plants bought at Trader Joe's

Potatoes, ginger: organic store bought potatoes and ginger sprouted before I could use them up, I stuck them in potting soil and they grew to produce a modest amount.

Sweet potato slips: I put toothpicks in organic sweet potatoes and suspend them in a glass of water. They create sweet potato slips with healthy root systems in a few weeks - these can be detached and planted for sweet potato plants when the temperature is above 55 degrees outside.

Chilli peppers and bell peppers: All my pepper plants lived outside through our mild winter. So, I took cuttings of them and put in a glass of water and left them on my windowsill - it took a few weeks, but, I am seeing some roots now. This means that they will produce faster than my seedlings.

Last year, I rooted roses, grapes, blueberries, longevity spinach and even dinosaur kale from cuttings.

I plan to try rooting Mexican Key Lime from cuttings after my plant finishes fruiting for this season - I was told that they take root very easily and I need one more of the key lime plant 🙂

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by mathnerd

[kbutton]

12 minutes ago, fairfarmhand said:

Any and all plants. And I think you may have forgotten the link?

Lol! https://extension.umaine.edu/gardening/manual/propagation/plant-propagation/

 

[Pen]

Thyme, oregano, sage, basil, mints.  

Lettuce, celery and carrot butt ends will regrow leaves (though not a new carrot IME)

parsley might be worth trying 

[Pen]

Leek and globe onion ends too. 

14 minutes ago, mathnerd said:

 

Green onion bottoms: put in a glass of water and it roots in a few days.

 

 

[gardenmom5]

vinca - I just cut a long piece, break off .eaves at at least one node (maybe two) where they sprout new roots, leaving other leaves exposed - and stick it in the ground.  I don't even bother to pre-root them.

any type of sedum. - another just stick it in the ground and it will grow.

I did it once with an African violet leaf - I stuck a leaf in dirt, not water.  it was very slow, but it sprouted roots.

fuchsias, like geraniums - I just stick in the dirt.  

[maize]

Mulberries and figs.

[mathnerd]

1 minute ago, maize said:

Mulberries and figs.

Yes! Forgot figs - they have been the easiest cuttings to root so far in my garden.

[Pippen]

14 Store Bought Vegetables & Herbs You Can Regrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJuXpiEjdcc

 

[Laura Corin]

Willow. Dogwood. I also had success with ornamental elder.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Laura Corin

[Spy Car]

2 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:

Willow. I also had success with ornamental elder.

Interesting. One old gardening trick (pre-rooting hormones) was to make willow water to promote rooting.

Bill

[Laura Corin]

1 hour ago, Spy Car said:

Interesting. One old gardening trick (pre-rooting hormones) was to make willow water to promote rooting.

Bill

The joke is that you could leave a willow plank on a lawn and it would root.

[Pippen]

15 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:

The joke is that you could leave a willow plank on a lawn and it would root.

A few weeks ago I noticed greenish branches at the bottom of our brush pile. It was odd, so I pulled them out and they were starting to seriously bud out. My husband trimmed up our forsythia last fall and tossed the cut branches in the brush pile. They weren't as far along as our forsythia, but there definitely was a lot of life left in those branches.