Citronella gives off a pleasant lemon like smell that helps keep some mosquitos and other biting insects from finding you. We plant it as a annual around our front door where we sit to have our morning coffee, around our bbq and the trail going to our clothes line.
A large unloved citronella plant that we over winter in the house to make new plants. She is starved of light from our long cloudy Canadian winter.We are in zone 4-5 and the citronella geranium is zone 10.
The plant striped of its growing shoots for the new plants. The mother plant will grow back stronger than ever when the spring arrives.
We cut the six inch cuttings on a 45 degree angle, and put a small amount of rooting hormone on the bottom inch of the cutting. They will grow roots with just water but the rooting hormone speeds things up. You can also use honey or willow water to speed things up.
We give the plants a couple of days under a small led light before exposing them to direct light. Keep soil moist and spray the plants a couple of times a day until rooted. We have almost 100% success this way.
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