My attempt at potting rosemary
dbobul
9 years ago
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What's Wrong with my Potted Rosemary?
Comments (3)'What can I do to fix it?' I would put it outside asap. It will need hardening off i.e. put it out for a short time and bring in at night. Increase the time outside a little each day. I don't think it has any disease. The problems look cultural rather than physiological....See Moregrowing rosemary in a pot
Comments (23)re: I would have bought potted plant but it's not available online in India. I bought rosemary seeds after reading about it and thinking the climate is appropriate for them to grow. Growing rosemary from seed is really difficult. Can you get fresh rosemary at the market? It grows from cuttings, and you could root a few sprigs of fresh rosemary from the market. I root them like that often. Keep just a few leaves at the top of the stem (pull off the rest of the leaves and use them in a yummy rosemary flavored dish), and cut diagonally across the node where you removed the lowest leaves. Use a very sharp knife for a clean cut. Put them in a glass or jar of water. Change out the water often (every day or two), to avoid fungus and/or mold. You can add rooting hormone to the water to speed the process. Someone on here recently mentioned willow sticks as a good for promoting rooting, if you want something more natural. Once you see roots forming on the end (and often from the next nodes up the stem), transplant them to containers with good draining potting mix. I use only unglazed clay pots for rosemary. Plastic pots hold the water in and can give you problems with roots rotting. Rosemary isn't difficult to grow, but it is also very easy to kill. It likes good drainage, and water it sparingly. If it's over-watered, it tends to develop rot in the roots. If the ends of the needles are turning brown, or it looks like it's drying out, you have over-watered it. I only water when the potting mix/soil is dry to the first knuckle of my finger (I dig a bit to check how moist things are)....See Morepolka dot plant in my rosemary pot?
Comments (2)I suspect the polka dot plant and the rosemary have different water requirements. To keep the polka dot plant alive you will probably need to overwater the rosemary. FataMorgana...See MorePotted Rosemary Left Outside in Snow: An Update
Comments (6)Last year we had an arctic blast here that brought sub-zero temperatures along with high winds. Shame on me, I forgot to cover my Arp rosemary. Never the less it survived with only a moderate amount of damge that I was able to prune out in the spring. It has recovered nicely. In an endeavor to find an even hardier rosemary I went by the cold hardiness reference in the Well Sweep catalog. It lists quite a few cultivars that they have found through their own experience to be hardier than Arp. I tried two of those, 'Blue Spire' and 'Logees Blue'. The 'Logees Blue' is just wonderful, with its lemon-thyme undertone to the rosemary fragrance but, alas, it bit the bullet when we had a zero degree night last week. So much for that one. The 'Blue Spire' survived that frigid night with only a modest amount of tip damage, so I assume that it will make the winter here, I hope. Sadly, it is not nearly as appetizing as the 'Logees Blue' or the 'Arp'. All three plants are in the same area of the garden, and fully exposed. Next year I intend to try the varieties 'Salem' and 'Hill Hardy'. I had been told by one source that 'Hill Hardy' and 'Madeline Hill' are one and the same but, I see in the Well Sweep catalog that they have different flower colors. I would assume that if they are seperate cultivars that they would both be worth growing, having been selected by Madeline, herself. I had been told this some time ago. Now I am confused over their identities, and I do not want to order two plants that go by different names that are essentially the same. At some point I would like to try 'Madeline Hill' if it is a cultivar seperate from 'Hill Hardy'. Does anyone here have any input on that? By the bye; The USDA lists my zone as 6. I list my zone as 7a at the GWF because I have found that some zone 7 plants make the winters for me here, regardless of the stray mid-winter zaps. Blessings to all....See Morefatamorgana2121
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