I planted a few new AA plants a few weeks ago. Some of them are bushing out, but a couple of them are growing straight and narrow.

Should I remove the tops of the tall ones to encourage them to grow out some more, or should I let them all grow naturally?

This isn't quite what I thought this thread was going to be about.

Pinching the tip is where it's at.

Pinching the tips back will encourage bushier growth.

I assume that flowers are on the current year's growth, which means pinching back now would mean more flowers later in the season. Therefore, pinch away!

(Unless I'm wrong. Which I don't think I am.)

Yep.

Just make sure they little fellers are thriving before you start cutting them back.

You could also bend the longer stalks downward, and hold them there (with a stake, not your hand dufus). Within a week you'll see leaflets popping up all over trying to grow straight up...

Can Artemisia be propagated from stem cuttings?
It acts like it wants to be.

I've heard it can be done.

You could probably also ground-layer it.

Bend a stem down so it touches the ground, so you can weigh it down with a rock. 4-6" should extend beyond the rock.

Cut a slit where the stem will contact the soil, dust it with rooting hormone, and bury/weight that part of the stem (still attached to the plant), and be sure the growing tip is still exposed.

Let it grow a few weeks and it should be rooted. Then just cut it off the main plant and transplant.

It can also be air rooted (with some appropriate substrate). If using rockwool, be sure to keep it moist with a dilute nutrient solution (I prefer Olivia's). One thing I have learned is not to remove the dead/dying leaves near the stems. If you leave these be newer growth will start from each junction with the stem, creating a bushy plant.

That being said, the plants I have are also stretching a little now, with softer tissue growth than I have normally seen. It could just be the time of year, though I imagine stretching would occur most in the winter.

I'll just wait 'til someone
gives me more, like last year.

Phuckin' phlora phreaks.

What more do you want, hyssop maybe?
Ever think of plowing up the yard?

I'd love a little hyysop...

How do I plant a cunt tree?

Oops, I meant "country".

Damn Asshat, dropping those HYDRO terms.

Done,
Hi, ya sop.

I was wondering what that xit was.

Air layering don't seem to work too good here in Hot Desert World.

Plants don't grow so well in a convection oven.

I tried that, but it didn't work well.

At $5.99 a plant, you're better off just buying them, unless you want to sacrifice a good plant to attempt 100 cutting propigations.

Dan

Who the flying fuck is SisterPeakFreans?

Gardening tips by Dan.

This phuck hole is getting like
NPR on a Sat. morning.

At 3PM, Louched Liver gives a rare interview to Tavis, performs live and presents a sneak preview -- the world premier -- of his latest decoration video, entitled: Decoratin' in da Hood, Ikea Stylee. Right here on the Tavis Smiley Show.

3 AM.
I'm still building my phan base.

All those Big Woody's tacos are sure to broaden your phan base.

Big Woody's?
Tacos?
Please move this to Smuttty's
and stop informing us of such things.

Not the Big Woodys Burritos!

He ate 16 tacos in a sitting and lived to express inordinate pride about it. I think he's still going for a personal best of 20.

I hope he at least opened a window.

Yes, to the porcelain underworld.

Working on developing a fourth engine, were you?

Enuff never seems to be,
well, enuff.