so in this video I'm going to talk about two different types of cuttings that you can do to
propagate mint now for the first one all you will need is a pair of scissors a glass and a glass of
water and then your mint plan it's very simple mint is one of the easiest plants you can do to
make cuttings and propagate because it just it's always wanting to root and take root
and make new plants naturally so it's very easy to do cuttings from it so you want to get your
mint plant now you want to choose some of the healthiest foliage do the darkest green leaves
good long strong stems because this will be the easiest to root so you want to find one like this
one here and you want to cut it quite far down so here's the cuttings got one here as well so
all you have to do now is remove the lower leaves so I'll just put my camera down so I can do it with
two hands now it's very easy you just have to hold it at the top with the other two fingers just
gently pull and the bottom leaves come off as easy as that so I'll do the same for this one
just move all the bottom leaves and that's the two cuttings prepared there so what you want to do now
is just cut it to the nearest internode so you can see here you got a little notch there so you just
want to cut it just below that notch about there pop that in the water so the same with this one let me get the
focus better for you there's a little notch just here so I'm just going to cut it just below that
and put that in the water so the reason just take a few more leaves off there you just want about five
or six leaves on the plant and pop that in the water you want the stems well covered in water so
the reason why you cut it off at the node there is because that's where the most growth hormones
are and the most embryonic cells are there for the new roots so you cut it off there it encourages
the root better keep it in a bright place but not in direct sunlight somewhere that's warm but not hot
and dry and about with the mints they're not too fussy they can go pretty much anywhere and after a few
weeks you should get some healthy roots once you've got the healthy roots you can then pop them into soil
and you'll have a happy healthy mint plant like this of course with all the leaves you're taking
off you can use them for making whatever you want with your mint now the other method is is not
as easy and it's a bit trickier its not as commonly used but you can still do it if you want to make
a huge amount of mint for whatever reason you want to make loads of mint you know you might have cut all your
leaves off and you want to use the excess or you can always do this in winter as well because you
know we can't normally do stem cuttings in winter cos mint often dies down to the ground so another
one is root cuttings so i'll just place the camera here so you can see better so what you want to do is
either dig your mint out the ground in winter or if it's in a pot pull it out the pot and during the
during the autumn it sends out a lot of runners that's what you can see here spiraling
around the pot so you can see when they grow up to the surface they start growing leaves and into new
plants so all you need to do is find some healthy runners find the end of it where at the surface
there where got a growing tip you just want to carefully pick it out without snapping it and get
a good long section of runner just like that so I'll now cut that just like there put that back
in the pot so what we've got now is a section of runner with some already some fresh roots
you can see so it's already rooted this so I can just separate them because there's actually quite
a few here there's a few runners something like that you can see it's already got some I can get it
in focus you've got some small roots on the bottom it's even got a growing tip
you can see even better with this one though this one's a much larger one you can see the roots there already as you can see the growing
tips already going green with small leaves so all you need to do for this the root cuttings is you want to
bury the entire thing with just the very tips poking out the top so you get yourself some soil
you then want to bury this completely in that soil so just pop it in bury it and you just have
the very tips poking out the top just like that and now you put that somewhere cos it will be
winter it will probably be quite cold put it somewhere cool but not too hot you know like a windowsill
in a room that's not too warm and after well this is really quick probably if it's somewhere
quite warm but not too dry after a week or so it should be putting on strong growth because it's got it's
already got the roots established and it's already got shoots going so that's actually a much
quicker way of making cutting than the leaf cuttings but it's just a bit trickier because
you've got to dig up the soil it's a lot messier as you can see as well but you'll get a quicker
more robust plant in less time it's also a cutting that you can do in winter and autumn whereas the
the foliage you can only do leaf cuttings throughout the time of year when it's got leaves on the plant
which is spring to autumn so this is good for winter you can't really do this in summer because
the plant only really does runners in in autumn and winter but that's just another way of doing mint
cuttings as I said mints one the easiest plans to do cuttings and once you've got it in the ground
it keeps spreading as well so most people once you've got one mint plan you don't need another
but if you want to make more give some way to friends this is the easiest way to do it