RSSA Tentative Success
October 14th, 2007 | View Comments
Remember I was going to root some grocery store rosemary? I had a ton of rosemary left in the packet after my rosemary chicken and veggies. I left it in the fridge for another week or so before I decided I had better root it.
I picked out six green springs between 2″ and 4″ long and stripped off the leaves from the bottom inch. I filled a narrow glass with some water, added a dash of rooting hormone, plunked the sprigs in the water, and set it by the window.
Then I ignored it. After two weeks, there was nothing. I went away for a long weekend at the end of September and when I came back…roots! A couple more weeks in the water, and this is what I wound up with:
Four of the sprigs had grown pretty decent-looking root systems. I tossed one sprig that had developed only three measly roots and another that had turned black. Next step: pots.
I potted the two smaller ones with sparser root systems in small pots with seed-starting mix, figuring they might need a little extra nourishment. The bigger ones wound up in bigger pots with potting soil.
The one in the big terracotta pot is for me. The rest, if they start to flourish, will go to friends. I’m going to call this a tentative success.
Yvonne posted this on October 14th, 2007 @ 11:23pm in Plants/Gardening | Permalink to "A Tentative Success"
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