Clematis

 I have been asked about doing Clematis and

for the last couple weeks I have been working

with a couple Clematis that I have picked up.

I won't say where I got them but they were in

2" pots and not something I would purchased

but knew it would be a long while to see them

take off.   After looking them both over I knew

that I wanted to test one in full sun and picked 

the best one to try.   Shortly after putting it out

it fried.  But the root system was strong.  

This has been out in the yard for two 

weeks and it's just one stem and looking

not to good.....Hence do not just stick 

them out into the world at this size.

The other was already looking bad so I cleaned

it up the best I knew and stuck it in the greenhouse.

This is just 2 weeks worth of growth.  It's

really looking nice.  

I decided while they both were to small 

it was best to keep them in the greenhouse 

and give them special care.

When I purchase these two I also got

one in a one gallon.   It was a nice looking

one about 2 foot tall.  Since I noticed that

this one wasn't root bound it still needed

some special care.  I left it in the same pot

only sinking it into a 4 gallon pot with a

larger trellis.  

I also picked up 2 - 4 inch potted ones

that were root bound and you could tell

they were ready for their gallon pot.

When the roots come out of the 

bottom then we will then bump them

up into 2 to 3 gallon pots.  

We slowly bump them up.  We have 

learned from our growing brugs, these

need to be root bound before they 

take off.  We don't put anything less

then five years old into the ground.

A fellow clematis grower recommended

to sink the whole plant in water then

put it in the fridge for a day or so before

planting.  Interesting!!   Will have to 

try this is I get anymore small plants.

It's not about how many plants, it's how

well you can grow them! 

6/8/2021

The very first Clematis that is on this post

was taken out of the greenhouse a couple

weeks ago and put in a larger pot.   I left 

the clematis in it's original pot only sunk

it in a larger pot for the outside.  To my 

surprise today it bloomed and there are 

four other buds.  

I use deer netting for support.