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Platanoides (Platty)
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RHODODENDRON FRAGRANTISSIMUM PROPAGATION This straggly looking plant, for most of the year, just sits there doing nothing and not looking particularly good.
However, for a couple of weeks in spring it blooms and fills the conservatory, and indeed all the house, with its heady scent.
I have got to like it so much over the past 6/7 years that now I would like to propagate it.
Does anyone have experience of this? Would rooting the soft shoots -present now ---or layering be best?
The Bush
The Flower
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Somerset Lad
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I'm afraid its either layering or saddle grafting on to R. ponticum rootstock. You would need specialist equipment to attemt cuttings and they ,even then are all but impossible. 
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Platanoides (Platty)
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Thank you for that advice --- might go for air layering as the branches are very brittle and upright.
Worth a try.
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