Any thoughts: water-rooted lavender to soil

sounds interesting
I have had no experience to offer

I have rooted lavender in my cloner for a friend, and it has done very well when she puts them in soil.

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to pepperhead - what is a cloner?

Hi, Lisaann - I have to disagree with you. I once rooted a lemon mint cutting in water. It had quickly developed a big set of roots, altho the top part was withering (which is why I want to get my lavender in soil). Immediately upon putting the mint in soil, it died.

I have done some research, and do think there is a valid point about different kinds of roots. Water roots are much finer, and seem to not survive transition to soil.
For anyone else who is interested this is one thread I found about the process:

"What's the best way to move plants rooted in water to soil?

I LOVE the idea of rooting things in water, but a few times I tried this and got roots, but the plants perished when I moved them to a pot. Could someone give me a few pointers on what I might have done wrong. Many thanks. Eileen
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calistoga_al ca 15 usda 9 -
Partially fill the pot with your mix, hold your rooted plant by the foliage and keep the roots just on the top of the soil. While holding in this position add more soil to the level desired. Lightly firm the soil. Set the pot in a bath of slightly warm water about halfway up the pot. Leave until the surface of the soil glissons from the water. Remove pot and put in shady area for a few days. Al
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The info Calistoga provided is very good. If you don't succeed doing it this way, try dipping the delicate roots into a thin mud slurry first before inserting in the soil. This apparently protects the thin plant hairs. You might also try just gently sprinkling the soil over the roots and not tamping it down, and then misting the soil thoroughly to prevent the roots from breaking off. Make sure you keep them in shade or cover them with a plant propagator hood for the first few days to keep the humidity high.
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bubba62
Yet another method is to leave the plants in water (you might want to put them in individual containers) and add coarse sand or fine aquarium gravel (anything that won't float or absorb water) until the roots are covered. Then allow the water level to decrease via evaporation until the plants adapt to the solid substrate, at which point it's an easy transfer to soil in a pot.
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I rarely do any rooting in water but I use bubba62's procedure if I want to plant one in soil that has been rooted in water.

Soil roots are stronger than water roots.

April, trim the roots to a manageable length, then pot up according to the good directions in the previous posts.

Hydro to soil or vise versa can be a difficult task, a simple way to avoid problems is to treat the plant as if it was a cutting/clone. Immediately after transplant place a clear plastic bag with a few holes in it over the plant, after a few days make some more holes in the bag and so on until there is no difference between having the bag on or off.

This method of keeping a higher humidity works very well and you should do fine.

thanks desert woman.

Glad you brought up this topic, Ellen...

Several of my lavenders bit the dust last winter... B-|

I rely on them for the lavender sachet's I make and give for Christmas...

I'm going to try propagating by rooting cuttings in soil this spring...
Interesting read about rooting water rooted cuttings...

Posted directions in 'Crafting', Red...