The Mansfield Park, L’espirit de Fille, Confiture, Wedding Roads, Honey Caramel, and Katherine have come in.
Now we’re just waiting for Royale, Auswonder, Special Bride, Vivid Red, Kinda Blue, Auswill, and Lovely Raspberry.
On the list to possibly buy next are Garden Fashion Ausmit, Arietta, Tamaki-Misora, Orange Party or Orbit, Bella Trendsetter, Austango, Petit Four, Toffee, Cappuccino, and Peony Red.
That should hopefully give me enough colors to work with.
These are the flowers that we’re working with.
Juliet Confiture RoyaleSpecial Bride
Vivid Red
Kinda Blue
L’espirit de Fille
Mansfield Park
Katherine
Wedding Road
Auswonder
Auswill
Jise
Honey Caramel
Catalina
New SPS
Emma Woodhouse
Ausjo
Lovely Raspberry
If you have any recommendations for varietals with unique colors please let me know! I only have the basics for the moment.
Seeing a good amount of recovery as new growth. The Catalina is the slowest to recover while Jude the Obscure is the fastest.
I talked to the vendor Ergongzi and it seems that the Confiture, Wedding Road, and Katherine are Grafted even though they are listed as an own root. I’ll have to air layer these as soon as possible so I don’t propagate the wrong part in the future.
I tried air layering with a root pod but it seems that the canes aren’t strong enough yet so it snapped off even though it was the thickness of a pinky. I threw the broken canes into an DIY aeroponic bucket cloner that I will edit in here when the lights go on. I wasn’t able to make Lactic Acid Bacteria prior to placing them in the bucket since I had to act fast but I will link it here for anyone that goes down this route. The LAB will help prevent root rot if you’re not running a sterile system with hydrogen peroxide or bleach.
I was looking at an ultrasonic mister for future versions of the cloner as it has a couple pros. Some of which are lower costs to replace if a mister breaks (about 1/4 the cost of a pump) and a reduction in heat produced within the system.
I have tried the aeroponic cloner before with bouquet roses which didn’t work out. This time around i’m using softwood. We’ll see how it turns out in a couple weeks. I’ll be adding bleach at a rate of .2-.3ml per gallon if I don’t make LAB.
Edit:
Softwood Juliet & Jude the Obscure at varying thicknesses
