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Should I leave big leaves alone??

Posted by kresca (My Page) on
Fri, Apr 3, 09 at 22:20

Help. I posted under a different subject and got valuable help....but I need to know if I should snip off the really big leaves on my geranium plants (they are huge disks)...the plants don't yet have flower buds. Should I snip the really long stems with nice leaves on the ends? I don't want to end up with bare stalks in May! Does snipping off the leaves on long stems do anything for the plant or am I wasting precious 'snipping' time?

I did what greenhouser2 said on some of the plants but I don't know if I did it right so I didn't do it on all of them. I'm getting stressed!

If I see new growth on the pinched plants in three days I'll do it to more of them. Heck, I've got over 700 of the stinkin' plants!


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RE: Should I leave big leaves alone??

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!


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RE: Should I leave big leaves alone??

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.


 
 

 

 


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