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Author Topic: Dianthus - looking good now  (Read 8651 times)

Lesley Cox

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Re: Dianthus - looking good now
« Reply #60 on: July 11, 2011, 01:20:48 AM »
Blast. Erinaceus is so perfectly descriptive of the plant. It is truly a vegetable hedgehog.
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Re: Dianthus - looking good now
« Reply #61 on: July 11, 2011, 08:06:09 PM »
I took Dianthus cuttings today and didnt get as many as I had hoped. Many have flower buds at their tips.

After a week or more in damp tissue the cuttings that Graham sent me had started to root

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Re: Dianthus - looking good now
« Reply #62 on: July 11, 2011, 09:49:05 PM »
I took Dianthus cuttings today and didnt get as many as I had hoped. Many have flower buds at their tips.

After a week or more in damp tissue the cuttings that Graham sent me had started to root



Obviously quality cuttings Mark ;) ;D
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Re: Dianthus - looking good now
« Reply #63 on: July 11, 2011, 10:34:41 PM »
Try some more cuttings when flowering has just about finished and there is plenty of new, non flowering growth. They should root quickly.
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