Garden Pinks

[Tel]

I have a garden pink in a pot called Alan Titchmarsh. When is the best time of year to take cuttings from it ?

[daitheplant]

Wait until it has finished flowering Tel, having said that, I would use the stems which have flowered for early cutting material. Have you struck cuttings from pinks before, because it`s different to taking cuttings from other plants? May I ask, why have you named the pot Alan Titchmarsh?

[Tel]

Jul 2, 2014 19:11:52 GMT daitheplant said:

Wait until it has finished flowering Tel, having said that, I would use the stems which have flowered for early cutting material. Have you struck cuttings from pinks before, because it`s different to taking cuttings from other plants? May I ask, why have you named the pot Alan Titchmarsh?

I think I should a done some proof reading, before posting.

[daitheplant]

Jul 3, 2014 9:28:37 GMT Tel said:

Jul 2, 2014 19:11:52 GMT daitheplant said:

Wait until it has finished flowering Tel, having said that, I would use the stems which have flowered for early cutting material. Have you struck cuttings from pinks before, because it`s different to taking cuttings from other plants? May I ask, why have you named the pot Alan Titchmarsh?

I think I should a done some proof reading, before posting.

And take the humour from the site? Never.

[Cherry]

I have two pots of Pinks growing away fine and I got the small cuttings 3 or 4 weeks ago. Sometimes there is no choice in availability of cuttings. Of course, if you own the mother plant, take it later. I thought unflowered cuttings were best daitheplant.

[daitheplant]

They are Cherry, but flowered stems will do as well, just remove the flower so they don`t set seed.

[sweetpea]

Back in march my wife had a birthday bunch of flowers incl some carnations.
When it was time to send them to the compost heap I thought I'd try some cuttings so took 3, two of which I just potted on today.
No idea what to do with them as never having grown before but suspect that as florists' flowers they will not be hardy outdoors.
Still I will have a go at overwintering them in the g'house and see what happens.
Only dianthus I have grown previously have been sweet william and the Alpine dianthus on the rockery.
as they say, 'nothing ventured....'

[sweetpea]

seems to have doubled up and I can't delete

[daitheplant]

Sweetpea, your carnations should do fine in the garden. What I would do, is grow them on in the greenhouse, then next spring, harden them off before planting out late spring/early summer.

[sweetpea]

Jul 16, 2014 18:17:35 GMT daitheplant said:

Sweetpea, your carnations should do fine in the garden. What I would do, is grow them on in the greenhouse, then next spring, harden them off before planting out late spring/early summer.

That is the plan, more or less. Nothing lost by trying.

[daitheplant]

They will be fine, trust me.

[Tel]

I took some cuttings last autumn from a bunch the OH had bought, left them in the green house over winter, forgot to separate them, now some are in bud.

[sweetpea]

This is the two cuttings today.

[daitheplant]

Actually sweetpea, you could take another cutting off the tall one.

[sweetpea]

Its odd isn't it. Both taken at the same time and same situation and one gallops off