Prepare Butterfly Bush Cuttings

how we do the butterfly bush okay alright so here's our butterfly bush cutting and as you can see it's been soaking in water I had it in a five-gallon bucket and it won't hurt it to do that so soak them in water for a day or so but don't soak them for too awful long because you'll start causing them to rot okay so we want to cut off right here all the way up against that stalk and then cut just below it at a slight angle boom away it goes I got some mess to clean up on the porch here that's okay it's worth it so also right here you can see there are some more Stocki areas right here I'm gonna cut this back and you want to cut this guy a little bit back to these propagate very very very easily guys very easily SuperDuper cool we actually have two good cuttings right here but this will be the one that we use and I'm gonna again cut my leaf back okay I'm gonna take it I'm gonna dip it in a cup of water very simply as it's in the water I'm gonna take my finger right there and poke a hole down and get him out of the water and dip that node right there into my rooting hormone slide him down into the pot and this is kind of a woody stalk okay so you want to try this with several different kinds of stalks just give it a try doesn't cost anything it's really fun and this is just regular potting soil right here okay so we'll set this to the side let's show you one more just so that you kind of get the gist of all this all right okay so here is a prime candidate for propagation this is the woody part of the stalk it has a lot of nodes on it that are very close together now ideally you want to try and bury two sets of nodes up so that it gets a good root set okay I'm cutting all this back and I just want to leave probably the top two little sections here now I can use this for another routing okay I can use that piece for another routing I want to cut these back basically all the way back to