I think she gives herself the spa treatment.

The trick to cuttings is to keep them moist and humid without rotting them. Cut down on tranpiration by removing all but a couple leaves. Cut the leaves that are left in half to cut down on transpiration. Rough up the end of the stem a little (that helps encourage roots). Oct 19, Take 4- to 8-inch ( cm.) cuttings from dwarf fruit trees and to inch ( cm.) pear tree cuttings from those that are large. Make a clean cut at a degree angle ¼ inch.6 cm.) below a leaf node.

Pour equal part of vermiculite and perlite into a planter and water. Allow any excess to drain before planting the pear cuttings.

Don’t make it soupy, just damp. Mar 26, You can take a cutting! About Plant Propagation (Cloning) Essentially, you clone the mother plant. This process enables you to quickly increase the amount of hot pepper plants you have, and it ensures the new plants retain the characteristics of the stumpdelimbing.barted Reading Time: 2 mins.

There is no way for the stem to get oxygen and slime will easily build up and rot the stem.

Dec 24, It can apparently be grown from fresh seed in spring or from summer cuttings but information on this seems pretty sparse and I have been unable to find any details.

If your friend wants to try cuttings I would suggest she goes for the half-ripe kind (Wood of the current season which has hardened to some extent so that it still bends but does not yet snap).