LESSON 3: How to root your own stem cuttings.
OUTCOME: Students will learn how to grow many plants from just one.
CONDITIONS: This lesson plan will take place over one month.
ACTIVITIES: Teacher and students…
1. Select the best one to six inch long non-flowering stems of plants
such as geraniums, mints, coleus, impatiens, mums, and most perennial flowers
and herbs.
2. Remove and leaves from the soon to be buried portion of the stem.
Fill seedling flats or small containers with potting soil.
3. Dip the fresh cut base of the cutting in hormone rooting powder.
Insert each cutting in rooting medium and firm, label, and water (misting
is best).
4. Cuttings started in spring will be rooted and ready to plant out
in summer, and will be well established by fall. Check the rooting
soil and mist or water as needed until the cutting is ready for the garden.
MATERIALS: plant, soil, water, mister, pots, rooting hormone, pruners, and labels.
MODIFICATIONS /ACCOMODATIONS: Allow students to assist one another.
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT: Growth of plants, teacher observation.
STANDARDS: Life skills, grade 9/10.
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