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Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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Posted by Grant_fnq QLD Aust (My Page) on Sat, Apr 2, 05 at 5:26
Does anyone have any experience striking Melaleucas from cuttings. A friend is trying to strike a red Melaleuca viridiflora from a cutting, and, whilst the cuttings appear to remain alive for several months there is no evidence of root growth and they eventually die. He is using all the right sorts of striking mix, etc.
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RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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- Posted by Snodge Outer Sydney (My Page) on
Sat, Apr 2, 05 at 13:10
| I had no trouble striking cuttings from my pink melaleuca armarillis. Could your friend be killing the cuttings with kindness perhaps? Maybe too much watering? |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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| I have struck Melaleuca viridiflora from cuttings. It took a while, but then I made the cuttings in mid winter. Cuttings made now will probably work quite quickly, at least in Melbourne. |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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| I have heard that striking cuttings of plants from the Myrtaceae family is, generally speaking, quite hard in that they take a very long time. That includes Melaleucas, Callistemons, Eucalypts etc. |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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| I have done callistemons and melaleucas in my 'native days'. There is a tendency to callus and the material has to be just right. Must be possible as there are plenty of cultivars around. |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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- Posted by Shooa NSW Aust (My Page) on
Mon, Apr 11, 05 at 20:43
| Grow from seeds! It's easy just wait for the nuts after flowering put a whole bunch of them in a brown paper bag and leave it somewhere warm-dry and you will end up with hundreds if not thousands of seeds. |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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Thanks, all, for your help. Shooa, the seed option. I am afraid, will not solve the problem as are trying to strike a plant that will be true to colour. If grown fron seed this plant will often revert to yellow, or so I am told.
It looks like we will just have to be patient. |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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| melaleucas can strike from fairly soft young tips (semi hard)and need hothouse conditions. seeds can be variable and you may end up with white or red flowers. i have just collected seeds from a melaleuca viridiflora weeping form and am curious to see what comes up. |
RE: Growing Melaleuca from cuttings
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| Greg: I don't think anyone has struck eucalyptus from cuttings. Melaleucas are really quite easy, particularly swamp varieties. |
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