I loved your advice about 'Do it before you think you're ready to'. That's gardening in a nutshell. I had no idea these were so easy to propagate or I'd have already done it, but now I'm going to have lots of butterfly bushes. Thank you!
I've done what you said. Keeping my fingers crossed. Now to keep an eye on them, water them as needed and for the best by the end of the first week in August. Thank you for your guidance! I planted six starts. 😊
Thank you for your encouraging comments! I like the “sometimes you have to do things before you’re ready”. That one is going on my quote board as words to live by👍🏼
I’ve taken cuttings of honeysuckle and now they’re rooting. The rooting powder has great effect. I’ve just taken cuttings from a butterfly bush hoping they’ll root the same way. Thanks for sharing 👍
I’m going to try this. I have 2 rainbow flowering and another that’s pink. I’m just getting into propagation and it looks so simple. Thanks for the tips
All the info above is good and correct about getting cuttings ready to root, but 5 weeks is long by my standards. Not all cuttings will root at the same speed. In only 2 weeks I have 1 cutting from BBush that has some nice roots already. In similar pots to the above I will make a greenhouse effect and keep them humid and under lights if you have it. I also prefer soilless mix to root cuttings. Later on after rooting is good you can up pot to regular potting soil or mix.
Thanks for doing this. I'm going to make another attempt at this. The ONLY time I have succeeded is with my prize winning, as far as I'm concerned, Callistemon, which obviously draw alot of bees as well as butterflies. They are at about 10ft. right now and already blooming. I managed to get just one cutting to take off, and I'm happy for that. I just transplanted it. Maybe these will do better this time.
The main thing is to not give up make small changes each time until you find what works for you. I have tried things I have seen that works but for some reason not for me. Thank you for watching 👀
@@PlayingwithPlants Exactly! What I've tried, specifically in this very dense clay area, is what I've found to do that actually works. I'm not just talking about the propagation and potting nature of all this, but the point of transplant and afterwards. Even though I'm in more or less the same growing zone as Texas or Florida, means absolutely nothing in regards to this specific landscape. The ground in this area needs a great deal of preparation and continuous work. I can show you picture after pictures in this entire town, the failure of Crepe Myrtle for example, where nothing has been done. Basically, in this area, just the results of across the board neglect.
@@PlayingwithPlants I always do. You really have no choice otherwise in a place like this. Most people here fail at doing so. They dig their initial hole at whatever instructions for the young transplant. Once the roots of the Crepe Myrtle, and Azalea which is extremely tolerant to this climate, reaches that limit, that's it. The plants, flowers, trees, or anything else stifles and will not bloom, at best. You see this CONSTANTLY in this place. I recovered a rose bush under these hideous conditions by digging up around and below the root system, adding compost, and bringing in extra soil to layer over that. Besides the usual fungus treatment and attack by these insects. It's doing better than ever right now. Otherwise, that rose bush would be finished. I don't have the before pictures from last year or 2. Let's just say it was bad. Very bad.
@@PlayingwithPlants The good thing is after you do all the initial hard work at the beginning of your location here, the work the following years gets easier, right? Because I've cut up and chiseled away on previously. Not let it set year after year without lifting a finger. There is some guy down the street, among others, with 4 Crepe Myrtles in a row. If they even survive this year, they will never bloom again. That's why everybody and their brothers' sister has palm trees in this place. You don't have to do any work. Just because I'm on the gulf coast, this is a FAR CRY from being in Florida.
@@PlayingwithPlants I've noticed that some 'not so good' youtube channel's are really put out there, while they suppress some really good ones...I found yours by luck (was searching for propagating something totally different)...I do know that propagating perennial flowers/shrubs & bushes are really popular...Some of those plants cost a great deal of money & everybody loves "free expensive plants" when it comes to propagating. Putting "Free" on any thumbnail would attract viewers...
I have a large butterfly bush that is 4 foot tall. I have to move it so that I can build a new deck. Can I transplant that without killing it? It’s very hot in Kentucky now and I hate to lose it. Please help!
great video. I watched your video and planted my butterfly bush cuttings. I covered them in plastic. I bought a small frame zip up green house. Can I keep them in there covered? It's September and winter is coming. thanks.
I have one cutting that has rooted! I am very happy and will definitely try more when I can get more cuttings. Now the question is, do I keep it in a pot or is there a special time that I can plant it in the ground, I am in zone 7!
I have a sterile butterfly bush. In Jan. Feb. I take cuttings and cram them in a pot under the bush and leave them there. 12 cuttings in a 12 inch pot. Zone 7a.
this method didn't work for me,, I took the cutting exactly like you did, but the leaves where I cut them in half at the top turned brown and then slowly the stem turned brown from the top first. The soil was always kept moist. Not sure what happened, but I think next time I will try one in just water, and also I will not cut the leaves in half and see if that helps.
Just don't give up find what works for you I have tried the way others do some things and just don't seem to work for me but I keep trying there is more then one way
It’s the last week of June so in five weeks will be the end of July. When should they be planted in the ground and will they survive winter? Or should we keep them in a pot in the house until spring?
😆 was wondering the same thing, at the same time. I’m in the phase your in but thinking about moving them to a bigger pot and bottom watering only. Huge success from using MIX this year 😝
Potting mix has no soil it is a soilless mix and Potting soil has soil in it. It is heavy will not drain as well and most I have seen doesn't hold water as well
Not in the sun will dry them out to quick it takes time and may have to try it a time or two I have had times none would take and had times that I got over 90% to take don't give up
I really don't know I myself don't have a favorite. Honey, there are powders on the market and for rooting in water just put Willow two or three twigs in the water with the cuttings Hope this helps sorry I could not be of more help
@@PlayingwithPlants I like that you suggested willow twigs! I bruise a few and steep them in water because willow is free and seems to jump start anything. Some people use honey.
Oh, I wish! I can't even find an invasive plant that lasts long enough to invade. Something always gets them, weather or animals, etc. Still working on having a butterfly bush last through winter without being kept in the greenhouse. Big temp fluctuations outdoors kills them. Alfalfa and quack grass, onions and garlic do okay, but not much else.
I loved your advice about 'Do it before you think you're ready to'. That's gardening in a nutshell. I had no idea these were so easy to propagate or I'd have already done it, but now I'm going to have lots of butterfly bushes. Thank you!
Thank you for watching
I wrote that saying down too!
Thank you for watching 👀
I've done what you said. Keeping my fingers crossed. Now to keep an eye on them, water them as needed and for the best by the end of the first week in August. Thank you for your guidance! I planted six starts. 😊
You have got this 👍
Thank you for your encouraging comments! I like the “sometimes you have to do things before you’re ready”. That one is going on my quote board as words to live by👍🏼
Thank you
I had the same reaction! Great words to live by.
Thanks
I’ve taken cuttings of honeysuckle and now they’re rooting. The rooting powder has great effect. I’ve just taken cuttings from a butterfly bush hoping they’ll root the same way. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for watching 👀
Thank you. Think I’ll subscribe. This was very useful 🎉
Thank you
I’m going to try this. I have 2 rainbow flowering and another that’s pink. I’m just getting into propagation and it looks so simple. Thanks for the tips
Have fun and share the love
I love the advice that you give us at the end of the video. Thank you
Thank you
Great video! I am doing this as soon as the growing season starts. Thank you again!
Glad you enjoyed
All the info above is good and correct about getting cuttings ready to root, but 5 weeks is long by my standards. Not all cuttings will root at the same speed. In only 2 weeks I have 1 cutting from BBush that has some nice roots already. In similar pots to the above I will make a greenhouse effect and keep them humid and under lights if you have it. I also prefer soilless mix to root cuttings. Later on after rooting is good you can up pot to regular potting soil or mix.
Thank you will try this
Terrific video. Easy and understandable. Going to try it as soon as I find root ing hormonr
Thank you easy and straight to the point is what we aim for. Honey 🍯 will work also for rooting
Gm edagdwg thanks for sharing love THIS special bush have one a forever fan. Linda j.peace
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for watching 👀
I just got a butterfly bush yesterday and love the color so I will do this. Thank you
Have fun and spread the love. Thank you for watching
@@PlayingwithPlants 👍
Great tips my friend 😊👍🌱
Thank you for watching 👀
Oh, I LOVE this! I have a purple one, also, and I’ve thinking about propagating it. Thank you💕
Try and learn
I usually throw out or compost when I trim. I'm going to try this so I have more bumbles and butterflies to watch.
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agreed. such encouraging words and easy to learn from. enjoy your garden! subscribed and liked :)!
Thank you
"Practice will make better" love that!
Thank you but it is very true 👍
Thank you! Good video and helpful
Thank you you for watching. Share the love ❤️ of plants 🪴 with the younger generation
Appreciate your video and tips, I am going to try this
Thank you never give up the more you do the easier it gets thanks for watching 👀
Thanks for the tips!!
Glad it helps
Thanks for doing this. I'm going to make another attempt at this. The ONLY time I have succeeded is with my prize winning, as far as I'm concerned, Callistemon, which obviously draw alot of bees as well as butterflies. They are at about 10ft. right now and already blooming. I managed to get just one cutting to take off, and I'm happy for that. I just transplanted it. Maybe these will do better this time.
The main thing is to not give up make small changes each time until you find what works for you. I have tried things I have seen that works but for some reason not for me. Thank you for watching 👀
@@PlayingwithPlants Exactly! What I've tried, specifically in this very dense clay area, is what I've found to do that actually works. I'm not just talking about the propagation and potting nature of all this, but the point of transplant and afterwards.
Even though I'm in more or less the same growing zone as Texas or Florida, means absolutely nothing in regards to this specific landscape. The ground in this area needs a great deal of preparation and continuous work. I can show you picture after pictures in this entire town, the failure of Crepe Myrtle for example, where nothing has been done. Basically, in this area, just the results of across the board neglect.
You may have to dig a extra big hole and back fill with better soil/mix
@@PlayingwithPlants I always do. You really have no choice otherwise in a place like this. Most people here fail at doing so. They dig their initial hole at whatever instructions for the young transplant. Once the roots of the Crepe Myrtle, and Azalea which is extremely tolerant to this climate, reaches that limit, that's it. The plants, flowers, trees, or anything else stifles and will not bloom, at best. You see this CONSTANTLY in this place. I recovered a rose bush under these hideous conditions by digging up around and below the root system, adding compost, and bringing in extra soil to layer over that. Besides the usual fungus treatment and attack by these insects. It's doing better than ever right now. Otherwise, that rose bush would be finished. I don't have the before pictures from last year or 2. Let's just say it was bad. Very bad.
@@PlayingwithPlants The good thing is after you do all the initial hard work at the beginning of your location here, the work the following years gets easier, right? Because I've cut up and chiseled away on previously. Not let it set year after year without lifting a finger. There is some guy down the street, among others, with 4 Crepe Myrtles in a row. If they even survive this year, they will never bloom again. That's why everybody and their brothers' sister has palm trees in this place. You don't have to do any work. Just because I'm on the gulf coast, this is a FAR CRY from being in Florida.
thank you
Thank you and have fun. Share if you would. Going to try to make some more videos soon
Thank you! ❤
Thank you 😊
Great video
How long does it take for the young plant to mature?
Thank you
I was kept getting bigger for about three years
Great video
Thank you
Thank you!!
Thank you for watching 👀 and share if you would I hope to get some new videos out soon
Good video
Thank you
didn't know it was that easy,,going to try that for sure
Thanks for watching. Good luck on your new adventure
Thanks so much
Thank you for watching
I appreciated this video...don't know why youtube is not promoting it.
Thanks I wish they would maybe because I'm new and only have 61 subscribers
@@PlayingwithPlants I've noticed that some 'not so good' youtube channel's are really put out there, while they suppress some really good ones...I found yours by luck (was searching for propagating something totally different)...I do know that propagating perennial flowers/shrubs & bushes are really popular...Some of those plants cost a great deal of money & everybody loves "free expensive plants" when it comes to propagating. Putting "Free" on any thumbnail would attract viewers...
Nice! Ty!
Your welcome
I have a large butterfly bush that is 4 foot tall. I have to move it so that I can build a new deck. Can I transplant that without killing it? It’s very hot in Kentucky now and I hate to lose it. Please help!
Yes you should be able to leave a big root ball on it cut the bush back some and keep it watered good
great video. I watched your video and planted my butterfly bush cuttings. I covered them in plastic. I bought a small frame zip up green house. Can I keep them in there covered? It's September and winter is coming. thanks.
How cold 🥶 does it get where you are at
@@PlayingwithPlants I'm in Maryland so it can get real cold, snow etc.
I would say not with a newer rooted plant a well established plant is good down to around -20°
I have one cutting that has rooted! I am very happy and will definitely try more when I can get more cuttings. Now the question is, do I keep it in a pot or is there a special time that I can plant it in the ground, I am in zone 7!
great news that one more than you had. Share with friends
Keep in a pot until it gets bigger and plant it in the spring or early fall
Is there a certain time to propagate? I can’t wait to do this! Thank you, sir
I have done it in the winter in a heated greenhouse but spring or summer works better
@@PlayingwithPlants cool! It’s summer! Thanks!
I have a sterile butterfly bush. In Jan. Feb. I take cuttings and cram them in a pot under the bush and leave them there. 12 cuttings in a 12 inch pot. Zone 7a.
Was a little cold at that time outside keep trying you will get it to root
Great demonstration. I’m trying as soon as the rooting hormone gets here. Thanks for sharing
The main thing is to have fun with it. Wish you many plants 🪴
this method didn't work for me,, I took the cutting exactly like you did, but the leaves where I cut them in half at the top turned brown and then slowly the stem turned brown from the top first. The soil was always kept moist. Not sure what happened, but I think next time I will try one in just water, and also I will not cut the leaves in half and see if that helps.
Could be not enough moisture at the top of plant. Try a spray bottle with water and give it a spray or two each day.
Just don't give up find what works for you I have tried the way others do some things and just don't seem to work for me but I keep trying there is more then one way
It’s the last week of June so in five weeks will be the end of July. When should they be planted in the ground and will they survive winter? Or should we keep them in a pot in the house until spring?
I would keep them indoor until spring unless they are bigger then they should be ok just keep them watered good this summer. Thank you for watching 👀
😆 was wondering the same thing, at the same time. I’m in the phase your in but thinking about moving them to a bigger pot and bottom watering only. Huge success from using MIX this year 😝
@@PlayingwithPlants Yikes. If we try propagating now (late June zone 9 in CA), we need to try to keep them indoors all the way until spring?!
Yes I think it would be best
@@PlayingwithPlants thanks
Do you have a rooting hormone that you prefer?
No not really. to me something its seems to help sometimes about the same as not using any at all
What's the difference between potting soil and potting mix??
Potting mix has no soil it is a soilless mix and Potting soil has soil in it. It is heavy will not drain as well and most I have seen doesn't hold water as well
@@PlayingwithPlants Thank you for explaining that.
Will this work by placing the stem in water?
Not sure never tried it that way if you try it let me know. Sorry I could not be of more help
@@PlayingwithPlants thanks for the reply. I’m selling my house and want to take a piece of my garden with me. I’ll try your way too.
😊💚🌱🌻🐝
I tried this but after 3 weeks do not see any change. Can I put the cuttings outside in the sun?
Not in the sun will dry them out to quick it takes time and may have to try it a time or two I have had times none would take and had times that I got over 90% to take don't give up
What’s the best root hormone you use?
I really don't know I myself don't have a favorite. Honey, there are powders on the market and for rooting in water just put Willow two or three twigs in the water with the cuttings
Hope this helps sorry I could not be of more help
@@PlayingwithPlants I like that you suggested willow twigs! I bruise a few and steep them in water because willow is free and seems to jump start anything. Some people use honey.
Thank you and thanks for watching
Seed pragating
Never done anything from seed as far as I know never seen a seed from it. Sorry I can't be of more help
😅 but a too long!
?
you should never plant butterfly bush that reseeds because it is an invasive plant.
I have had two for years the only one I have got was the one I rooted
That depends on which growing zone you are in. I'm in zone 5, and they are not invasive here.
Not in zone 7 either
Oh, I wish! I can't even find an invasive plant that lasts long enough to invade. Something always gets them, weather or animals, etc. Still working on having a butterfly bush last through winter without being kept in the greenhouse. Big temp fluctuations outdoors kills them. Alfalfa and quack grass, onions and garlic do okay, but not much else.
Sorry to hear that where are you from?