How to propagate Arabian Jasmine aka Jasminum sambac

Earlier this year we bought this Jasmine plant and surprisingly its doing well – thanks to wonderful weather and Alaska Fish Fertilizer. Early this summer I started thinking about propagating the jasmine plant and after a bit of googling found that jasmine plant can be propagated by taking cuttings and rooting them. So I started my propagating experiment during last week of August and to my luck still the propagated plant/cutting looks real healthy – though I haven’t seen any new sign of leaves yet.

Thought I should put this in my blog, so that it might help someone wanting to propagate Arabian Jasmine by stem cuttings. Here are the instructions.

• Make a slant cut where a branch meets the main stem of the plant.

• Wet the cut end of the stem and dip the cut end in the rooting hormone – I used TakeRoot rooting hormone

• Use a pot of wet Perlite mixed with peat moss and use a pencil or screwdriver tip to make a hole sufficient enough for the cutting.

• Stick the cutting into the Perlite/peat mix.

• Optionally you can seal the pot inside of a plastic bag with holes – this kind of makes a green house  

• You don’t have to water but mist regularly such that the Perlite medium doesn’t get dried out.
• I have been told rooting should occur in 7-8 weeks. So need lots of patience here

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