MULTIPLY YOUR MUMS AT NO COST

Mums are pretty in the fall when everything else are brown and dead. Mums which is short for Chrysanthemum comes in all colors and they will bring beauty to your front door or garden when all other plants are loosing their leaves and flowers. One way to get more mums at no cost is to propagate from cuttings.

Mums are pretty hardy and will survive anywhere in the ground even with not roots. Here is what you need to do if you want to multiply the quantity of your mums, take a stem or cutting or tip of the mum plant and stick it in the moist ground where there is not a lot of sun. Keep the ground water regularly maybe once a day. It is better if you remove the foliage from the planted stem so the focus would be on rooting not wasting energy on producing the leaves. You will not need any fertilizer or root stimulator chemicals to help with rooting because mums stem has soft tissue that adapts to wet ground really well and produces roots with a week.

Once your mums stems are producing new growth or shoots which is an indication of good roots it is ok to tansplant them anywhere. I would recommend growing mums in a pot only if you don't want them to take over your garden, they will spread like mint does.

Keep your mums tightly trimmed so the blooms are nicely together and attractive. Trim mums to promote new growth and more flowers.

Next time you think about buying more mums don't if you already have some at home to multiply.

Happy planting