Take a 2 to 3 inch 5 to 75 cm cutting from a mature rosemary plant with a clean sharp pair of shears. Its super simple to learn how to propagate rosemary from cuttings.
The quickest method will be rooting the cuttings in potting soil using a rooting hormone.
How to propagate rosemary. Here are some tips to keep your plant healthy and producing. Propagate herbs propagating rosemary from cuttings youtube. Once you have an established rosemary plant a really neat thing you can do with it is take a cutting and make more rosemary plants.
If playback doesnt begin. The best time of the year to do it is in late spring to early summer when your rosemary has new growth at the tips. Rosemary cuttings are the most common way to propagate rosemary.
Rosemary thrives in 6 8 hours of direct sun in the summertime. Water when the soil feels dry. Other ways to propagate rosemary.
Once established rosemary likes to stay on the dry side. All you need is cuttings from the variety you want to grow. Gather your supplies secateurs seed raising mix mini propagator with cell growing tray rooting hormone multicrop plant starter watering can spray bottle.
There are a couple of different ways to propagate from cuttings. If i can do it you can too. Cut a piece of rosemary about 6 8 inches long that looks like it is newer growth.
Rosemary cuttings should be taken from the soft or new wood on the plant. Rosemary is a rather robust plant once it is established and growing. Growing rosemary from seed is a great way to try out new varieties.
Rosemary seeds germinate in 2 3 weeks and reach maturity in six to twelve months. Grow in a sunny location. Cuttings from rosemary will root without using the rooting hormone but it does speed up the rooting process.
Rosemary is easy to grow more without buying another plant. Choosing to propagate rosemary from stem cuttings is a short cut and the most common way to multiply your plants. You can grow new rosemary plants in three other ways.
It just takes a little longer.