Cuttings that root in water

I’m going to try all three this year - cuttings in soil and water plus layering. Fingers crossed everybody

 

I've had two buddleia globosa cuttings in a jar of water for about a month, but with no roots developing. The cuttings still have green leaves and appear to be alive. Should they have rooted by now, or have I taken the cuttings wrong?

 

Buddleia globosa can take up to three months....but that's just plonked in warm damp sand. Not tried them in water, but if they look ok carry on regardless

 

I've grown Globosa from cuttings in water. Give them at least another month. Cuttings of most plants will normally take six weeks plus in water. At the moment I'm trying Cotoneaster, now six weeks on and I think are just starting to show root buds.

 

Cotoneasters certainly do quite well stuck in water @Sheal , although they're pretty easy in the usual way. I often cut pieces to put in a vase with other flowers, and they usually have roots by the time I chuck the flowers.

 

I've rooted Bougainvillea, Erythrina Podranea and Brugmansia in water using fairly ripe wood late summer, it can take a couple of months.

 

Thank you @Sheal and @fairygirl. It never occurred to me to try cotoneaster in water.

 

@fairygirl and @Obelix-Vendée the Cotoneaster cuttings I'm trying are slightly different to the norm being an upright shrub with eventual height around 6ft. I have the original shrub but it's still a youngster. The berries are similar to a Hawthorn.

Cotoneaster 'Berried Treasure'.

 

Yes - I expect there will always be variations with the variety and timing @Sheal. I've done diffreent ones a few times, but I tend to do my cuttings the traditional way of bunging them in pots, round the edge, with a good, gritty mix. Only problem is - I often forget about them, and if the labels get blown away [which happens quite often] I have to wait and see what happens, and then figure out what they are.
I often pick out little ones that have seeded into cracks between paving, and pot them up for adding to the hedge or similar.

 

Unfortunately I can't risk anything outside @fairygirl. With destructive deer and pheasants to contend with cuttings wouldn't stand a chance. After rooting in water I pot them up and keep them in the utility room until they're of a size to plant out or put into large pots.

 

Ah - the deer...and the pheasants ...double whammy!
Just the r*ddy slugs to cope with in this garden, but we did have pheasants in the last one. I know what you mean though- it's very difficult to get smaller plants out when they get destroyed so easily. I've just said on another thread that I'm considering giving up with large flowered clematis. Too many of them just can't cope - eaten as soon as they appear.
I've got 2 that'll need dug up and potted - possibly permanently.

 

Slugs aren't a problem here fairygirl, I rarely see any and have never seen a snail.

 

Making me jealous now @Sheal . I've just been outside for another ten minutes of hunting them. Not that I need to go far to find any.
Everything is being decimated this year. I doubt the Asters will get to flowering stage at all, and they're usually fine. Hellebores, the Ligularias, sibirica and ensata Irises, Hylotelephium/Sedum spectabile, daffs and tulips, Phormium, even things like Saxifraga urbium [London Pride] Jap anems and Cardamine pratensis - covered in them, and they usually aren't attacked to any degree. I have a clump of wallflowers that survived the non winter, and I'm taking easily 20 off that at least twice, sometimes three times, a day. Many plants have come into growth earlier because of that mild weather, which hasn't helped either.

I took a pic of the clem. Miss Bateman flower yesterday. I'll post it on another thread. It's lovely...

 

No need to be jealous @fairygirl. I don't get away scot free (excuse the pun) I have ticks to contend with here. I never work in the garden without jeans tucked into socks and always brush myself down after finishing but they still find me from time to time. At least most of my plants survive - having got deer wise too.

It's a shame you lose so many plants to the pesky slugs.

 

I know what you mean about those ticks @Sheal . It's one reason I never wear shorts when hillwalking! My BIL has had problems with those on various occasions, and it isn't funny.
Deer, rabbits, pheasants, slugs, badgers - it's a wonder we bother to garden at all eh?

I missed lilies off that list too- we now have lily beetles to contend with here, as well as the slugs. They were never common until fairly recently here. I used to grow the longiflorum lilies a long time ago. They always seemed more resistant. Perhaps I'll try a little experiment next year...