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Jul 29, 2023 7:21 PM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
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My middle son is building me a propagation box for doing cuttings in. This is a picture of it in process. He needs to attach the lid and misters under the lid. My son's will move it outside to My little backyard. Then we will put 8 to 10 inches of a mixture of potting soil, peat moss, sand & perlite. We put drain holes in the bottom already. Then we will attach the garden hose and cuttings of course. The dimensions of the box are 48" x 24" x 32" tall.
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Jul 30, 2023 8:51 AM CST
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That should give you something to play with!
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Jul 30, 2023 9:42 AM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
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That's what I keep telling my hubby nodding
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Jul 30, 2023 12:53 PM CST
California Central Valley (Zone 8b)
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Fastinating project - it will be fun to see how it works. Do you have a way to circulate the air? I would be concerned about mold and unwanted fungus.

What is your reasoning for filling the bottom with soil instead of just putting pots in? Are you planning to use it in winter? What sorts of things are you planning to start?

I'm not trying to be rude, just curious.
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Jul 30, 2023 7:02 PM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
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My climate is so dry here that all my attempts to root cuttings has been 100 % failure. I did have something similar made out of a large fishtank with a misting system a few years ago that was pretty sussful. I will be trying to root rose cuttings, other flowering shrubs and trees. If need be I can put a small fan attached to the under side of the lid.
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Aug 28, 2023 8:41 PM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
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This is my plant propagation box.
I will be adding more cuttings this week.
Thank You! for looking
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Aug 28, 2023 11:27 PM CST
California Central Valley (Zone 8b)
Region: California
Thank you for sharing. What did you plant?
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Aug 29, 2023 7:41 AM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
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6 different types of my roses.
My clematis
Chaste tree
Spanish broom
I will be going after other stuff this week
Like my bougainvillia, hibiscus, white ,butterfly bush, desert willow and chitapaw. Thanks for asking.
Happy Gardening :-)
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Sep 26, 2023 8:51 PM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
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Finally some success!
Today I checked on the cuttings I started about 6 weeks ago in my misting box.
So far I have rooted...
3 Iceberg rose cuttings,
2 darlow enigma rose cuttings,
1 double delight rose cutting
1 new dawn
1 Montezuma rose cutting
1 desert willow.
I have several more cuttings looking good.
I will recheck again in a couple weeks.
I potted up the rooted ones and left them in the misting box.
So exciting!
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Sep 26, 2023 9:24 PM CST
California Central Valley (Zone 8b)
Region: California
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
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Sep 27, 2023 5:25 PM CST
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
Opp, AL @--`--,----- (Zone 8b)
Region: United States of America Houseplants Overwinters Tender Plants Indoors Garden Sages Plant Identifier Garden Ideas: Level 2
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Agree, that is exciting!
The golden rule: Do to others only that which you would have done to you.
👀😁😂 - SMILE! -☺😎☻☮👌✌∞☯
The only way to succeed is to try!
🐣🐦🐔🍯🐾🌺🌻🌸🌼🌹
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now. (-Unknown)
👒🎄👣🏡🍃🍂🌾🌿🍁❦❧🍁🍂🌽❀☀ ☕👓🐝
Try to be more valuable than a bad example.
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Nov 8, 2023 6:52 PM CST
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Name: Colleen
Edgewood, NM (Zone 5b)
Live Long & Prosper.
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Update on propagation box. Here are some recent pictures of my misting box. We are going to move it into my greenhouse. I need to dig out all the cuttings that are in there to see what all have rooted. Am hoping for the best.

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Thank You! for looking!
Happy Gardening :-)
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