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Get massively crazy ROOT STRUCTURE (n flowers to go with) on newly propagated Bougainvillea cuttings
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Way to make the cutting Number 1- The first is normal scarring, what we have been doing in the past. Just scar the epidermis the outer cover on all sides until you see the white greenish layer
Way to make the cutting Number 2- The second would be to bifurcate the cutting. Split the bottom of the cutting in 2 halves up to an inch
Way to make the cutting Number 3- The third is- criss-cross cuts between bottom 2 internodes. Hold the knife and move the cutting as you see here
Way to make the cutting Number 4- And the fourth way is the craziest of them all, we are not doing anything to it. Just a normal cutting, no scarring nothing at all.
Cuttings are ready to be put in the pots. I have marked the disposable cups as 1. Nothing 2. Normal Scrape 3. Bifurcation and 4. Cuts on the internodes.
Exactly after 7 days- 3 of them have sprouted except the one that was bifurcated
Day 10- I am sure you are aware that roots follow the shoots, so first we will see the growth of leaves and after a few days we will see the roots starting to take shape
Day 15- Things looking perfect until now and soon we will have a look-see at what’s going on inside the pot.
Day 30- Let us have a look at all the pots closely and find out what’s going on with the root structure. The thing to note here is one of them- the cutting we made by doing nothing to it, the leaves are not growing as aggressively as the other three. This looks interesting already, can’t wait to share it all with you.
The ‘NOTHING’ pot has nothing visible as of now
The ‘CUTS ON INTERNODES’ pot has a visible root structure, a great sign
The ‘BIFURCATION’ pot too is showing roots, beautiful
The ‘NORMAL SCRAPE’ pot again, looks in awesome shape. So all 3 except the ‘NOTHING’ cup are great with shoots and great with roots too. Too early to declare a winner, so we wait a few more days
Day 60- Here we are, I decided to repot them so that we have a better view of the root structure of all the cuttings. Now a few things you need to keep in mind while repotting- don’t water the said pot for 2-3 days and water immediately after transplantation. Do whatever, and get the whole root structure out of the pot without any major damage. Get maximum air out of the pot by gently tapping the soil around the base of the young plant and watering right after.
The root structure looks great on all the young Bougainvilleas. The results will be collated later in the video as there is no distinction right now and please don’t make the mistake of assuming things would stay almost the same going forward, they will change and it will shock you I can promise you that.
So our new and bigger pots ready with the markings. And we wait for a couple of weeks to again have a better understanding of how the initial estimation has changed
Day 65 Two of the bougainvilleas are in bloom already- Normal Scrape and Bifurcation
Day 70 Bougainvillea with ‘Nothing’ marking has joined the blooming lot.
But we are here to get to know which one of these has the most robust root structure. Let us look closer one more time and see if there is anything significant going on inside the pot and we have a winner.
The bougainvillea grown from a cutting that we didn’t scar or bifurcated is the winner. Look at the massive size on the roots, wow……it just picked up during the last few days and that’s what we were looking for…..how to make a cutting so that we have a fitter plant that would stand a better chance of survival in harsh and demanding conditions.
Let us have a look at it all again. As a planter, I am sure you too love how plants do things, their reaction to certain processes and how they surprise you all the time. This one was, again a surprising result, I had my experience telling me that normal scrape is great when it comes to propagation, but it just lost to something more basic- a cutting to which we did nothing. Interesting!!
So the winner is ‘NOTHING’, followed by normal scrape, the third position goes to Bifurcation and the last one is Cuts on internodes. Please be aware that I have ranked these first and foremost on the basis of the root size (maximum weightage) and then the overall health of the plant- leaves, flowers, et cetera to combine to find out the winner.