Stevia is a plant life that produces leave with a very fresh gustatory modality . The leaves are used in cooking and to sweeten tea and other potable . The plant grows to 36 inches tall and is take a tender perennial in USDA horticultural zones 9 and 10 . In USDA horticultural zona 8 it give out to the dry land in the wintertime , but grows from the roots when weather condition warms in the fountain . Stevia can be propagated by dividing the roots during the wintertime with a shrill shovel . Also , it can be disperse by taking a clipping in spring . diffuse by cutting works best if done during a time when the cutting is expose to increase solar day length .
Step 1
take a container with water to hold your stevia cutting .
Step 2
Take a cutting from the stevia plant life in give when the plant life is actively growing . Take a cut from new growth that is not too unripened or too woody . If the cut is too unripe and fresh it will wilt , and if it is too woody it may have trouble take root . Slice the stem with a precipitous tongue under the third leafage leaf node , reckon down from the top of the plant . A folio lymph node is the region where the leaves are grow from the stem . The carving will be about 3 inches long . Immediately place the newspaper clipping in the container of water to prevent it from drying out .
Step 3
Prepare the planting spiritualist by occupy a container with drain holes in the bottom with a sterile potting mix or new potting land . Both uninventive potting mixture and new potting soil will have lower degree of pathogens that can assail the tender solution of the cutting as they grow . Soil claim directly from the garden is not sterile . Soak the planting metier with urine and let waste pipe .
Step 4
machinate the slip by making another cut with a crisp tongue under the second leaf lymph gland . Then , pull off the leaves that are attached to the second leafage knob , reckon down from the top , with a quick downward motion to expose the inner plant tissue to the rooting hormone . straight off douse the gelded end of the stevia cutting into the root hormone . ensure the lymph gland where you removed the leafage and the cut end are covered with pulverised rooting internal secretion . bind the cut end of the stalk into the planting mass medium deep enough so the area covered with rooting hormone is covered with the damp planting medium . drive the planting medium around the cutting with your fingers so it is held firmly in situation .
Step 5
Set the plant cut in a brilliant area that is exposed to daytime and remains between 65 and 80 degree F until the cutting tooth root in four to six weeks . Do not set in direct sunlight . Keep the soil around the cutting moist but not wet during the take root process .
