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How to Propagate Hot Lips Sage
How to Propagate Hot Lips Sage. Hot Lips sage, which also goes by the botanical name of "Salvia microphylla," grows in USDA Plant Hardiness growing zones 8 through 10. Hot Lips gets its name from the coloring of the flower blooms--white at the top and deep red at the bottom. Like all other members of the sage family, Hot Lips is propagated...
Hot Lips sage, which also goes by the botanical name of "Salvia microphylla," grows in USDA Plant Hardiness growing zones 8 through 10. Hot Lips gets its name from the coloring of the flower blooms--white at the top and deep red at the bottom. Like all other members of the sage family, Hot Lips is propagated frequently by taking cuttings, which root with little effort and grow into new sage plants.
Things You'll Need
Hand pruners
5- to 6-inch plant pot
Potting soil or vermiculite
Water
Bamboo sticks
Clear plastic bag
Locate a disease-free, vigorously growing Hot Lips sage plant in late spring or early summer.
Grasp a stem tip and trace it back 3 to 5 inches. Find a node, which is where a set of leaves grows from the stem, and cut off the tip a quarter inch below the node, using hand pruners.
Pull off all the leaves on the lower half of the stem and discard them.
Fill a 5- to 6-inch-diameter plant pot with sterile potting soil or vermiculite an inch from the top rim. Poke a 2-inch hole in the center of the material, using your finger.
Insert the cut end of the sage stem into the hole and press the soil around the base to hold it upright.
Water the soil until completely saturated and water begins to run out of the bottom of the pot.
Insert two 12-inch bamboo sticks in the back of the pot until they are secure. Turn a clear plastic bag upside down and slip it on top of the pot. The bag needs to rest on the bamboo sticks, not the stem cutting.
Monitor the soil moisture every two to three days and add more when the soil is dry to the touch. The cutting will develop roots in two to four weeks.
