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Comments (16)I read Ted's advice and then mostly I just pinch off a piece and stick it in a pot of potting soil in my greenhouse. I would say about 90% of them root. They WANT to root. I just don't get in their way! My greenhouse is heated over the winter to keep it above freezing, but once the winter freezes are over I try to keep it at about 70 degrees, or a temperature that feels comfortable to me. It maintains a temp in the 60's and maybe goes up to 80 on a clear day before the vent opens and lets heat out. The air in my greenhouse is moist. If I take a cutting that has the extra leaf node, strip off the lower leaves and stick it into moist potting soil it grows because it wants to. If your basement area is too cool, too hot, too moist, too dry, the cutting will not be able to do what it wants to do. Forget the rooting hormone. That is just making money for someone else. Plants know how to make new plants by rooting themselves! It is the plants defense against being trampled by a herd of 4 legged beasties. Some broken bits get pushed into the soil and after the herd moves on they root and come up again. I start all my tubers in 4" pots. When they start getting too tall I pinch the tops out of them and root the pinched off pieces. The potted tuber grows bushier and the rooted cuttings make more of the plant. Just make sure there is a leaf node on the stem and that you have removed the leaves that were growing there. That is where the new roots will grow....See MoreTotal Leaf Loss - How to recover?
Comments (5)As long as their is life in the twigs and branches, then they will recover. I would use a good root stimulator and water it properly. Keep them in a very sunny morning or late afternoon location and watch hope it comes back. Let's just hope they didn't dry them out so bad, that the roots dried out severely, or died. The roots will just not work and rot away as soon as water touches them. If you start loosing branches, cut them off leaving the good ones behind. If you don't loose any, keep them on. If you loose them all, then, it's over:-( Mike...See MoreAt a total loss!
Comments (10)Henry, plants sense what time of year it is through light, heat, humidity and other factors. We can't root plants very well even here in Florida from November through February. Plants root best during the active growing season when all of the conditions are favorable. For us, that is March - September. You may think you have perfectly replicated those conditions artificially but ask anyone who has a salt-water aquarium how difficult that actually is. Bottom line is that your timing is all wrong. You are working against all of the forces. Plants want to remain dormant right now, not put down new roots or new growth. Try again with a vengeance - for you, probably in May, June and July - and let us know how it goes!...See MoreTotal Gym, workouts for weight loss
Comments (2)Sorry you haven't gotten any help here. Did your machine come with any suggestions for a workout plan? I would strongly suggest you have a visit with a trainer, or have one come to your home, to get a plan going. This will be of tremendous help, and it will also keep you from hurting yourself. Best wishes for success....See More
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