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Pop Bottle Plant Propagator (Growing Mint)

Pop Bottle Plant Propagator (Growing Mint)
How To Propagate or the production of more plants by seeds, cuttings, grafting or other methods.
This is a fast and easy plant propagator made from trash.
  We will be using cutting to propagate more plants form that one. We are using Mint, A plant propagator is purpose is to keep the plant upright in water and not let it sink and water logged or dry out and die.
 A little tutorial about plant propagation on step two  

tool  (scissors)
Recycled plastic pop bottle
A plant that can be reproduced by propagation i am using mint

 
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Step 1Step One: Plant Propagation

Step One: Plant Propagation
 Find a plant you can reproduce by cutting Propagation we are using mint.
Many Types of cuttings that can be grown from different parts of the plants, depending on the plant type.
You can propagate plants from the Root, Stem,  or even the leaf.
We are using the root of the mint plant. mint propagates VERY well, since the roots grow over the land and stalks of mint grow straight up from these. 
 I took One very long root form a mint plant cut it just below its JOINT, this is where the plant has roots or a fork or out growth, or the knuckle of a branch.
   cut just below this to include that as your new plant cutting.


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Sep 11, 2011. 2:43 PMRamonalisa says:
very cool . I will try that right away

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