propogating lavender
Pete >-M->
>Kind of a "piggyback" request.... I'm attempting to start lavender
>from (commercial) seed. Is it slow germinating (I hope)?
Yes it can be. The seed coat may be very hard so sometimes it
helps to soak the seed first.
One year I poured warm water over a packetful of seed in a saucer
and put it on the matlepeice and promptly forgot about it. Ten days
later *each* little seed had a wee white root showing and careful
sowing produced circa 100 plants !
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Trevor Opie
Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
Much obliged.
Trevor Opie
Ada
Allan Gardiner writes in his book 'modern plant Propagation'
Cuttings - All different species and varieties of Lavendula propagate
readily from cutting taken at any time of the year, but the most effective
period is during late summer when the side shoots are semi-ripe and about
70mm long. Cuttings are taken with the heel (trimmed) and inserted close
together in 125mm pots in a mixture of three parts washed sand to one part
peatmoss, topped with fine sand. The average number to a pot is 20 to 25.
They will strike quickly if pots are placed in a cold-frame or plastic
tunnel at this time of the year, and will be ready for potting up or rowing
out in autumn.
Alternatively, hardwood cuttings taken in late winter will root if rowed out
in the open ground. Prepare cutting by selecting growth 120 to 150mm long,
preferably with a heel. Strip all the leaves from the bottom half and
insert them in rows in open ground.
I have only ever tried the first method and it works beautifully.
Gary Woods
"Trevor Opie" <to...@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
>Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
Kind of a "piggyback" request.... I'm attempting to start lavender
from (commercial) seed. Is it slow germinating (I hope)?
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Late last summer I chopped lots of little bits off my lavender bushes, stuck
them in hormone rooting powder and then in the soil. They're all
flourishing!!
Anne
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>Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
>Much obliged.
>Trevor Opie
Alison Brooks
In article <3510fb0c...@news.albany.net>, Gary Woods
<gwo...@albany.net> writes
>Kind of a "piggyback" request.... I'm attempting to start lavender
>from (commercial) seed. Is it slow germinating (I hope)?
>
The Book says 15-90 days, and suggests chilling the seeds. But I didn't
do this, and managed to germinate sufficient for my needs.
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Kate
In article <W$w5UXA5G...@flin.demon.co.uk>, Alison Brooks
<Ali...@flin.demon.co.uk> writes
I planted some French lavender earlier in the year which germinated in
about 2 weeks in an electric propagator.
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June Hughes
In article <cpfF4CAe...@jbaassoc.demon.co.uk>, Kate
<ka...@jbaassoc.demon.co.yuk> writes
>
>I planted some French lavender earlier in the year which germinated in
>about 2 weeks in an electric propagator.
did you? I love lavender. Perhaps I'll give it a try. Cheaper than
buying the plants.
(gloomy thought - have just noticed I've said that a few times recently
- will have to be selective or will end up with nothing).
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once only imagined.
Blake.
Neil Youngman
>"Trevor Opie" <to...@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
>
>from (commercial) seed. Is it slow germinating (I hope)?
My commercial seed germinated in about 2 weeks.
Neil
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guarantee of success", Unix fortune
Alan Gould
>"Trevor Opie" <to...@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
>
>Kind of a "piggyback" request.... I'm attempting to start lavender
>from (commercial) seed. Is it slow germinating (I hope)?
We usually start a few lavender from seed each year. The plants will go
on for some time, but they are better renewed than left to go woody.
We sow seed into plugs, pot up the seedlings when big enough, then
transplant them out when they have developed a strong stem.
--
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June Hughes
In article <LBLNfZCF...@agolincs.demon.co.uk>, Alan Gould
<agol...@agolincs.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>We usually start a few lavender from seed each year. The plants will go
>on for some time, but they are better renewed than left to go woody.
>
If you cut them back hard when they have finished flowering, they don't
go woody.
David
In article <P6HEGoAk...@theacct.demon.co.uk>, June Hughes
<juneh...@theacct.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <LBLNfZCF...@agolincs.demon.co.uk>, Alan Gould
><agol...@agolincs.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>We usually start a few lavender from seed each year. The plants will go
>>on for some time, but they are better renewed than left to go woody.
>>
>
>If you cut them back hard when they have finished flowering, they don't
>go woody.
>
>
In commercial production they can be kept going for 20 years or more.
They are cut with a machine that scoops up the bush, chops it across and
lets it fall back producing a curved row of bushes. For a specimen bush
you should aim to prune for a "pincushion". The best way to do it is to
clip with shears after cutting the flowers.
I remember some experiments with renewing bushes by clipping back into
the old wood but ISTR they took so long to come back, and there were so
many fatalities that it was easier to replace them with new cuttings.
--
David Sinfield (Surrey, UK)
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and too proud to steal one.
Kay
June Hughes wrote
>In article <LBLNfZCF...@agolincs.demon.co.uk>, Alan Gould
><agol...@agolincs.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>We usually start a few lavender from seed each year. The plants will go
>>on for some time, but they are better renewed than left to go woody.
>>
>
>If you cut them back hard when they have finished flowering, they don't
>go woody.
>
green leaf, the plant tends to die. Our neighbour killed his entire
lavender hedge like that a couple of years back.
No problem, though. It's back as good as ever from self seedlings; and
the entire gravel terrace are surrounded by the hedge is one thick mass
of lavender seedlings about 3 in high.
>
--
Kay
k...@scarboro.demon.co.uk
cormaic
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:09:08 +0000, David <Da...@sinfield.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
>
>In commercial production they can be kept going for 20 years or more.
>They are cut with a machine that scoops up the bush, chops it across and
>lets it fall back producing a curved row of bushes. For a specimen bush
>you should aim to prune for a "pincushion". The best way to do it is to
>clip with shears after cutting the flowers.
There is a field alongside the west-bound carriageway of the
M58 at Bickerstaffe, the Southport turn-off, where Lavender is grown
each year. It is a wonderful 'calming' fragrance that fills the van as
we whizz past on an August day, heading for the coast.
sláinte...
--
cormaic
Culcheth, UK
Susan Carlson Dunn
On 10 Mar 1998 07:52:44 GMT, Trevor Opie wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
> Much obliged.
I prune my lavenders in late March or early April and then just push
the prunings straight into the soil around the edges of any containers
that happen to be about. Success rate is variable, but I usually end
up with a few new plants.
Alternatively, if you leave the flower heads on the bushes all winter,
the lavender will seed itself.
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Ethan Trod
For best results grow from seed in a greenhouse starting now. Put them out
towards the end of the summer and next year they will be coming on great!
Neil Youngman wrote in message <$zbRYLAM...@tsr2.demon.co.uk>...
>In article <3510fb0c...@news.albany.net>, Gary Woods
><gwo...@albany.net> gently wurbles
>>"Trevor Opie" <to...@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>>Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
>>
>>Kind of a "piggyback" request.... I'm attempting to start lavender
>>from (commercial) seed. Is it slow germinating (I hope)?
>
Jonathan Ward
In article <soecohyimmilvg.pminews@localhost>, new...@nexus.demon.co.uk
says...
>
>On 10 Mar 1998 07:52:44 GMT, Trevor Opie wrote:
>
>> Can anyone please tell me exactly how to take lavender cuttings?
>
>I prune my lavenders in late March or early April and then just push
>the prunings straight into the soil around the edges of any containers
>that happen to be about. Success rate is variable, but I usually end
>up with a few new plants.
>
>Alternatively, if you leave the flower heads on the bushes all winter,
>the lavender will seed itself.
>
>--
>Cheers new...@nexus.demon.co.uk
>Sue. Remove "spam" for valid email.
>
>
>
have flocks of 10-20 of them at a time on our lavendar bushes in the winter.
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