How Do You Propagate Bottlebrush Plants From Cuttings?
Bottlebrushes are popular trees in the landscape. Their flowers look like a long red bottle brush and that’s how they received their name. Propagating cuttings from a bottlebrush plant isn’t that hard and you’ll use the basic method of propagating cuttings to do so. Bottlebrushes are woody plants and propagating them by cuttings is a frequent method that is used to maintain the look of the parent plant. Propagating a plant through cuttings is called asexual propagation and is used for quite a few species other than just the bottlebrush. Dip the end of your pruning clippers into alcohol to remove any bacteria that may be present on them. You don’t want to infect your cutting with foreign bacteria that may keep it from rooting. Fill your container where you will be placing the cutting with vermiculite. Vermiculite has no organic properties in it and will help the cuttings remain standing and will allow oxygen to get to the rooting area so the cuttings will develop. You want a planting me
