do bottlebrush cuttings grow

[ruth]

hi,
musing over how i was gonna prune the bottlebrush this year, my mind's
eye saw all the new growth above the spent flowers and imagined that if
i cut them off below the flowers and stick them in rich soil they'll
take off - a sort of fence of them out front.

Am i dreaming or is this possible! the only ppl i've asked suggest i'd
have to burn the seeds on the spent bottlebrushes first

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[len brauer]

i'm going to give cuttings a try got the rooting hormone ready but
mine are coming off young trees that haven't flowered yet.

you need to be careful when pruning them as they only flower on year
old wood i think, so too heavy a prune might mean no flowers for a
season.

go to the abc gardening page and do a search for growing from native
cuttings they have covered this on a few occassions

http://www.abc.net.au/gardening

good luck with the cuttings

len

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[Ruth Lawrence]

"ruth" <ru...@zip.com.au> wrote in message
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My father has grown several generations of bottlebrush from
cuttings: currently he has a hedge of C. citrinus forms he selected
himself.

Tip cuttings are taken in summer, after the new growth has hardened.
'Remove the lower leaves, dip in hardwood rooting powder and
place in pasteurised propagating mix, water, cover with a clean
plastic bag and keep in a moderately low light' is his method.

They take a while to strike.

another Ruth

[Simon]

They are one of the easier natives to grow by cutting. I once went out and
broke a bottle brush stem, about 7-8mm in diameter, off to use a mini stake
for another plant that wasn't doing so well. The plant I wanted to save died
but the stake shot roots and grew 8-)))

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