Excellent - will see if I've got time this weekend to do it. A friend of mine wondered if I'd be able to put the bit I cut off in compost and see if it takes root. Am I on a hiding to nothing or is it worth giving it a go and getting two for the price of one? Do I need to get hormone liquid/powder if I want to do this?
Julia, what do you have to lose? Depending on how much you cut off you could have a few cuttings. They need to be about 8 inches long, trim the bottom of the cutting to about a 1/2 inch below a bud ( this is where the roots will come from ) and you need to cut the top at about 8 inches again cutting about a 1/2 inch ABOVE a bud. If you`ve enough material left over repeat the proccess. Good luck.
I'm concerned. I've been keeping the soil moist, but the leaves are starting to wilt. With no other care instructions than I had with the Wollemi pine, I've given it an extra watering and a bit of a feed. I don't know if that will perk it up a bit. Anyone know if putting it outside during the day will help? I wonder if it's getting too warm, even though it's in our back hall which never gets heated.
I think it needs to be outside Julia, as its got leaves it might be best if you can keep it away from the frost, but its a hardy tree. You wouldn't keep an oak tree in your hallway would? Would you?
Hold off on the watering as well, Julia, you could be giving it too much. You get the same symptoms overwatering a plant as you do underwatering.
Thanks Pete and David. I'd had it inside since it arrived, because it had no leaves on it at all, but I put it outside this morning and there it can stay (I can always put it next to the house or raise it up on our steps if it gets frosty I suppose). Hope that helps it, because only two of the seven cuttings I took are looking healthy still!! I hadn't realised overwatering and underwatering looked the same - still got a lot to learn!
Yip ... you are overwatering The tree needs time for the roots to develop to use up the water. That is simply not happening now, and adding more water will kill the tree ..... Just a personal opinion from one who actually knows very little about anything
Ta Sam - looks like we have the problem then. I'll leave it to it outside. Now, it's still in the pot I first planted it in (quite tiny). So your comment about the roots development has got me wondering if I need to upgrade the pot at all? Or will that be too much of a shock at the moment?
Yessir! My plant paranoia is directly proportional to how rare the plants are. I couldn't care less about my hart's tongue fern, but all these rare Gondwanan conifers make me live on my nerves!
I appreciate that, but when you worry too much about a plant you start doing things which you think should be done. And end up damaging , or even killing, the plant.
