I just saw your posting on my thread about yellow leaves.

Glad to hear you pinched back some of your plants. Don't worry, they will be fine! It is the right thing to do.

For Valentines day, my husband and children brought me to a nursery, I bought two established mother geraniums, brought them home, and cut off all the new growth, 11 pieces off each plant. All that was left was a fairly woody stalk, and a couple leaves on both plants, to which, my enthusastic 4 year old yanked off! My husband was horrified, having no idea with what I wanted them for. He is thinking "Gee, I did good getting those plants for her" and then he walks into the room to see that I have hacked them to pieces!

I potted all the cuttings, and then left the mother plants alone. I now have the results, 22 baby Pelargoniums growing and thriving, and 2 mother Pelargoniums sporting their own new leaves!

It really is incredible!

Homemommy, did you use rooting hormone to root your cuttings with?

I'm interested in knowing what steps you took in the process of rooting all those cuttings, because I want to root some of mine.

I have heard that using hormone powder for cuttings is a bad idea. It was on some video on Youtube posted by a greenhouse. The presenter said it encourages root rot, however I have never had this problem, or at least I don't think I have. Any comments?