I don't know if the photo captures it, but the jars with fertilizers have slightly muckier water than the one without.
And that's about it.
I was hoping for greener leaves, and perhaps one or two roots. But the only thing happening seems to be that I have to change water more often. And I procrastinate that. I bet I wake up some day only to find two jars with dark green goo with a brown stump stuck into it.
I could by some hormones to speed up the rooting process, but I'm not happy about that. Since I have troubbles with my own hormones I do know how much that can go wrong.
At a second thought... [leaving the computer]
Now I've cleaned the jars. Wasn't that hard.
Interestingly enough the cutting in fresh water seems to be more healthy than those with added fertilizer. I have to take a closer look at fertilizing, maybe I'm overfeeding my babies? Well, if one of them survives I'm happy. Scented geraniums are good for flavouring sponge cakes.
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Hey to they have horticultural charcoal in your area? We can buy it in little bags here and I use it for mixing houseplant soil. If you add a few chunks of it to water that you're using for rooting it helps keep it a little cleaner.
I suppose you can also use the charcoal they put in fish tank filters too.
Actually, I don't know. I'll take a look next time I'm going greenery shopping.
Hmmm, I'll do a bit of research, if I'm lucky any charcoal will do.
Thanks for the tip BTW :-)
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