How to propagate Camellias 🌿🌿 | Using sand and a water bottle.

In this video we look at a simple and inexpensive way to propagate Camellias. We use a small plastic pot, sand, and a water bottle to produce rooted cuttings.

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[Dr.Warren]

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[nolagranolabar]

You made this video 3 years ago, and I was blown away when you opened by talking about having a plant that was sentimental, maybe in your Grandmothers yard…. My husband’s Grandmother & Grandfather passed away many years ago. My husband loved them so much and lived with them when he was a teen. Their little old house is due for demolition soon. In May we made a 6 hour trip to California to see the house before it’s sold and torn down. I saw a lone Camellia shrub and I took a few sprigs from it in hopes to propagate new plants in their memory for my husband. It’s now August and I have had the clippings in water for 3 months and they just won’t root. I’ve never had anything stay alive this long and not rot. I will definitely be trying this asap! Thank you SO much for this informative and touching video. I’ll be giving this my best shot! 🌱🤞🏻😃

[kathythompson]

Great video. My mom has award winning camellias in her yard. She recently passed away and we are selling her house. I am going to root several of each of her plants before the closing!

[marilynsmith]

I am planning to propagate a Camilla stem from my great-aunt's yard.. she lived beside me when I was a little girl and now I am a great-grandfather! I enjoyed the video.

[narrowdog]

Choose healthy stems to take cuttings from the camellia shrub in late spring or early summer. From the stem tip, count back to the fifth or sixth leaf node and make a slanted cut directly behind the node.

[loveandlovie]

You hit the nail on the head with memorializing these plants. I have a bush from my Grandmother's yard in Whiteville, NC and I'll be moving soon and want to take it with me. Thanks so much for all of the great details simply put and illustrated!

[monicaeberle]

So glad I found your channel! Exactly the info about camellia cuttings I needed, thanks!

[isabelladavis]

I use the large vinegar bottles with the bottoms cut out they are frosted looking plastic and put these over a one gallon pot quite large with plenty of room for those cuttings to sprout and grow …leave the caps on with an occasional vent …thank you for sharing ..

[nixieweave]

the first thing you said is the exactly why I am looking for ways to propagate Camelias, thank you!

[Majesticcauldron]

I have a 20 yr old Japonica on my newly purchased property and will be trying to propagate! Thank you so much..great video. East Texas Resident!

[crazytribe]

I am very happy I found your channel. I will be doing exactly what you said. My father has a camellia in his back yard that was grown from a clipping from his grandmother's yard. It's been there for as long as I can remember and I would like to plant one in my yard from that same bush. I'm also from the Auburn area but, I am a bama fan. Roll Tide and thank you for the great information Dr. Warren.

[ashmahembrom]

I just got a cutting of Camellia and I was looking for a video to help me with this. I guess I'm going to try your sand and bottle method. Thank you for the knowledge.

Update: This method works. I had two cuttings of Camellia and I tried to root them through this method and it has new leaves in just one month 😁

[janfrench]

Thankyou so much, great video, love the way you put the cuttings etc. close up to the camera so we can see what you are doing.

[lujanecuvnes]

Wow so many roots sprouted out now i know how to propagate my camellia plants once they bear hard stems, thanks so much with this info more power @ god bless

[teraanaam]

Great video, I was looking to propagate my beautiful Camelias - this was just right ! I am going to get going now ! Thanks

[laurabyrd]

Thank you for the step by step yes I have three of the Camellia bushes are miniature trees to route some of my mothers and some my mother-in-law’s. I can’t wait to try this. Thank you so much.

[jackfabulous]

Real good video!!!
Going to be visiting grandmas bush later today. Thank you so much. Very helpful!!! 👏🏼🫵🏼

[thenomadrhodes]

Beautiful.
The house my mother lives in was built in the mid 1800 and the land around her house is full of old old Camellias some i've never never seen before, and according to the OGs owners great great grand kids the old man cross bred some of his own camellias so theres some here that dont exist anywhere else and I've been trying to figure out how to make cuttings.
Thank you so much.

[janette]

Great video! From uk scotland-- going to try this just now- it's April time- is this builders sand you used ?,

[kaymitchell]

I would suggest putting the date on the bottle with a permanent marker when the cuttings were planted. Also, if rooting more than one, I would put the write the color of each cutting on the bottle also.