Late last summer when I took the Coleus Cuttings, I tried a few Marigold cuttings as an experiment. I didn't grow them on, I just learned how to get them rooted and stored the info away. This year, I took cuttings from the Marigolds I was not planting front and center. It benefitted the plants, causing them to branch out more, and it gave me some extra plants. I took a dozen, and treated them pretty harshly. Had I brought them indoors under grow lights, they would probably have all done well, but I just put them under a dome and stuck them in the cold frame.
Out of the twelve, I got five good plants all from the Star Spangled variety, and none from the Vanilla Cream.
When they began to show roots at the drain holes of the cells, about two weeks, I potted them up into 3.5" pots and gave them another week to get settled.
They were quite happy, even beginning to bloom.
That's a nice, compact, free plant and it didn't take up any space under the grow lights.
Now that I've begun cutting back the foliage from the Daffodils, there are a lot of areas that could use a little color. This edge beside the apple tree is one where I have often thought I could use some annuals.
Besides the Marigold cuttings, I alternated some extra Binky Dahlias that I also had going in pots. The Dahlia plants will be about the same size as the Marigolds. I'll let you know how they turn out.... if the deer don't eat them. That is a path the deer use several times a week.
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