how to propagate from hibiscus pruneings?
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if already cut, scar bark about a inch, start at bottom and go up about a inch.then dip in root tone,plant in sand,peatmoss mix. if have'nt cut em yet, take soil,and peatmoss, mix about 70% soil,30% peat, scrape an area about inch long on 2 side's of branch,put a pinch or 2 of root tone on area,make a mud-ball with soil mix. put mud-ball on area,bout size of fist, wrap ball with chesse cloth, like a bandage, keep damp, an you get roots before you know it. cut off below ball then and plant your new plant. it's a clone now.
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Florida hibiscus (not hardy), take semi-hardwood cuttings in the fall, dip in hormone (IBA?), bury in damp sand to callus, move to pots in spring. For the hearty variety, the procedure is the same except that they can not freeze over winter.
Florida hibiscus (not hardy), take semi-hardwood cuttings in the fall, dip in hormone (IBA?), bury in damp sand to callus, move to pots in spring. For the hearty variety, the procedure is the same except that they can not freeze over winter.