Quick rosemary propagation tips for you today. We've done a care guide on

Rosemary on the podcast before, but it is a harder wood cutting so it can be difficult to propagate.

There's a saying I believe Leslie Halleck who was on the show says you want it to root

before it rots and the harder the wood the more likely it is to rot out before it roots which is not what we want.

So let's talk about a couple different methods that you can do.

Now you can propagate it from seed, although I wouldn't recommend it. It takes quite a while and

unless you're doing it for curiosity's sake, you're going to save a lot of time by

just getting and or propagating from our next step which would be the stem cutting.

So to do this you're going to want obviously your mature rosemary plants and

pruning snips, potting soil, some kind of jar,

a misting bottle and then rooting powder and a plastic bag are optional, but they can increase the success rate, especially when you're talking about a plant like Rosemary.

So you want to take a stem tip cutting, don't take cuttings from flowering stems, they don't

root easily.

You want to get a healthy, vigorous stem, new growth, and then remove the top 4 to 6 inches of

that stem. At this point you have a fork in the road. You can root them in water or you can

root them in soil. So rooting in water you want to fill a cup with maybe a couple

inches of water. change the water every

few days and don't allow the leaves to be submerged in the water. If you're going

in soil, which is my preferred method for Rosemary, then you want to fill your pot with a high quality potting mix, dip the stems into

rooting powder, and then you can stick three or four cuttings evenly spaced about an inch deep in the pot.

Then your step here is to keep the soil moist, but not too moist.

Keep the pots in a shady location

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