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Post by john on Jun 11, 2019 5:51:41 GMT -6
I am sure you can do cuttings. I have never done it though. I have so many volunteers, it isn't necessary.
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Post by glen on Jun 14, 2019 16:42:01 GMT -6
Using cuttings is great depending on the variety of plant. It gives you much earlier harvest. For example, Malabar spinach. If you have live plants to take cuttings from you can cut pieces and bury them. Cuttings root almost instantly and you get a nice big harvest in a month or so. The harvest continues for the length of the season also. If you start a malabar spinach plant from seed, it takes several months to get your first harvest and the harvest is small. This is the only reason I asked. Malabar spinach comes up fine as a seedling, it just takes a lot longer. I had both this season, seedlings and cuttings.
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Post by glen on Jun 14, 2019 16:46:57 GMT -6
If you see Malabar spinach in the supermarket for sale and it includes the vine with the leaf, you might or might not be able to plant the vine in the ground and root it. Malabar spinach is sensitive and dies quickly when cut. You have to cut the vine and within 24 hours get it planted into the ground. Otherwize it will not root. Since I live in Panama, seed can be hard to come by. So I have tried using grocery store vines to start new plants. With no luck. A couple of times I have seen Malabar spinach growing in someone's yard. I then asked for a cutting. Thats about the only way to get a spinach garden going where I live.
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