🌼 Propagating Thunbergia: Step-by-Step Guide
Propagating from Cuttings
🌱 Step-by-step instructions for taking cuttings
To start propagating Thunbergia, select healthy stems that are inches long and have at least two nodes. This ensures that your cuttings have the best chance of thriving.
Next, make the cut using clean, sharp pruning shears. Cut just below a node at a degree angle to encourage optimal rooting.
After cutting, remove the lower leaves from the bottom half of the cutting. This step is crucial to prevent rot and promote healthy growth.
📅 Ideal time of year for cuttings
The best time to take cuttings is during late spring to early summer. This is when the plant is actively growing, making it more receptive to propagation.
🛠️ Recommended tools and materials
Gather the necessary tools before you begin. You will need pruning shears, clean pots, and a sharp knife.
For materials, ensure you have well-draining potting mix, rooting hormone, and plastic bags or humidity domes. These items will support the cuttings as they establish roots.
🌿 Using rooting hormone for better success
For improved success rates, dip the cut end of the cutting into rooting hormo
Thunbergia grandiflora is a flowering plant with many common names, including the trumpet vine, blue thunbergia and the Bengal clockvine, among others. As these common names suggest, Thunbergia grandiflora is a vine, i.e. a plant with parts that trail or climb onto other surfaces. The blooms of the trumpet vine are blue or purplish, the reason for some of their common names. It is native to various parts of Asia, but is often associated with India. It reproduces by cuttings or seeds, but there are also many hybrids and cultivars of this plant. Learn more with thedailyECO as we explain Thunbergia grandiflora care and propagation.
- Characteristics of Thunbergia grandiflora
- Thunbergia grandiflora light and temperature
- Substrate and fertilizer for Thunbergia grandiflora
- Watering Thunbergia grandiflora
- Pruning Thunbergia grandiflora
- Thunbergia grandiflora propagation
Characteristics of Thunbergia grandiflora
To better know how to care for Thunbergia grandiflora we should learn more about its characteristics:
- Also known as clockvine or blue trumpet vine, Thunbergia grandiflora is a woody climbing plant, endemic to Asia. Specifically, it is found
By Paola Tavoletti Have you a passion for violet-blue flowers? Then discover sky vine growing! What is a sky vine you ask? Read on to learn more about growing this charming landscape plant.
Sky Vine Growing
Sky vine (Thunbergia grandiflora), also commonly referred to as clock vine, a member of the tropical Acanthaceae family and is an evergreen in frost free climates, where it also produces fruits, but growth slows or stops in cool temperatures. It is hardy in zones 8 to The clusters of its trumpet flowers will enrich your garden with the vibrant feel from India, its origin. Dramatic lavender-blue flowers on a backdrop of dark green, heart-shaped leaves will light up your garden all summer, or all year long in tropical climates. Sky vine growing is rewarding. The plant blooms profusely, and its stunning flowers make great cutting specimens for arrangements. This vine is ideal for covering a fence, pergola, large trellis, or an arbor. It sends out long wandering tendrils, which can even grab onto a nearby tree branch, becoming an interesting focal point in the garden. It's this growth habit which gives the plant its name as well. One note of caution is that this woody-stemmed
Thunbergia Grandiflora
Thunbergia grandifloraLatin name
Clock VineCommon name
Very rare, fast growing plant with huge butterfly shaped flowers, borne in clusters throughout the summer, in the most beautiful and unusual shade of lavender blue. Very suitable for the conservatory, porch or sunroom where its climbing habit will quickly fill the space. Hardy down to just above freezing, so it is ideal for overwintering in a cool greenhouse or conservatory. HHP.
How to Grow Thunbergia grandiflora from seed
Soak the seeds overnight and then sow seeds in a small pot lightly covering with some potting compost. The seeds should be sown indoors 6 weeks before the last spring frost and a temperature of F should be maintained.
Place the pot in a bright, warm position and water regularly. Germination can take up to 30 days. When the seedlings are large enough to handle and the night time temperature if above 50F, plant out in the garden in semi-shade/full sun. Ideal grown on a fence or trellis but equally attractive in a large pot given some support. Water regularly.
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Variety: GRANDIFLORA
Type: Half Hardy Perennial
Packet Contains: 5 Seeds
Propagating Thunbergia grandiflora(Skyflower, Bengal Clock Vine or Blue Trumpet Vine) from cuttings is much more difficult than we thought. With the cuttings that we took from a nearby source, survival rate was a disappointing 0%. It is for this reason that we decided to head for the hinterlands of Mt. Makiling.
Since one of our daughters is studying at UPLB, DH already noticed the vines among the trees in our many visits to the campus via the UPLB shortcut. And yes, they were quite floriferous with the lavender-blue blooms. Unlike DH, I generally don't notice these things. Somehow, DH has this keen ability to hone in to surrounding flora wherever she goes.
So after we parked near the St. Therese Chapel, DH goes "hi-ho, hi-ho" with her tools all packed inside a sack (see above photo). We weren't after cuttings this time. No, we were looking for seedlings that we could dig up or cut and then replant in our garden.
She was armed with the usual: her trusty old garden trowel, pruning shears, a scythe and even a machete. We even brought along a garden pick-and-hoe combo but decided against putting it in the sack. Her sack was getting too heavy.
Invasion of Thunbergia Grandi