{"id":514,"date":"2016-06-27T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T10:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/taking-chrysanthemum-cuttings\/"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T10:08:46","slug":"taking-chrysanthemum-cuttings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/taking-chrysanthemum-cuttings\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Chrysanthemum Cuttings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have last seasons plants potted or in pots cut them down to about<br \/>\n175mm.Next stand them on a window sill or in a heated glasshouse.After<br \/>\nabout two weeks they should start to shoot from the dormant buds at the<br \/>\nbase of each stem.When the shoots are about 75 mm long take them as<br \/>\nsoftwood cuttings and place 6 ofs them around the edge of a 100mm pot<br \/>\nideally a clay pot but plastic will be fine.<br \/>\nThe key here is to use a very open compost of 50 percent peat or peat<br \/>\nsubstitute and 50 percent silver sand or horticultural vermiculite.<br \/>\nAfter about 10 days the cutting should start to root and once rooted you<br \/>\ncan pot them into 75 mm pots for growing on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have last seasons plants potted or in pots cut them down to about 175mm.Next stand them on a window sill or in a heated glasshouse.After about two weeks they should start to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}