[rawrecruit]

Just got some comfrey root in the post but it has started snowing again so can't get up to the allotment to plant it out. Is it one of those roots that likes to sit around in water, or should I pot it up until I can plant it out? Advice please!

[sowitgrowit]

Pot it up, water it in and pop it somewhere cool and sheltered.

It roots *really* easily.  Transplant it as a small plant - it'll take off once it gets going outside!

[rawrecruit]

oh phew thanks for that, was worried I'd end up having to bin it!

[sowitgrowit]

I'm sure it will be fine - it's a very resilient plant.  Drop a root cutting on the ground and chances are that you'll end up with a plant where it landed!

[GrannieAnnie]

It probably will still be okay if you don't water it or pot it up.  Sometimes the root that you buy is very dried up, but it still grows, so no need to panic!   

[cadalot]

I just stuck mine in toilet rolls full of compost stuck in a propagator and after 23 days I had leafs poking their heads thru the top. Planted mine out on the allotment over the Easter weekend.

[GrannieAnnie]

I had a pot full that probably hadn't been watered for over a year.  When we moved here I stood the pot on the patio for months until I found a spot for it.  I took it out of the pot and planted it, but didn't realise that a little bit of root had grown through the hole in the pot into the old patio and when we took the patio up, the comfrey started growing.

I kept digging it out, but it took me 2 years to get rid of it!   

It really doesn't need planting into pots.  Dig a hole and chuck it in.  Trust me.  The original plant I bought over 20 years ago, and take a cutting every time I move.

[shokkyy]

I bought 6 comfrey cuttings last year, 5 of which flourished when planted up in pots. I planted them out but this year I was disappointed to see that only 2 of them seem to have survived the winter. I can't see any sign of the others at all, so I think they're dead. I'd expected comfrey to be tougher than that.

[sowitgrowit]

I wouldn't be surprised if they still made an appearance as the soil warms up. Somewhere in the roots there will be a bit of a spark of life and it will more than likely regrow.

[green_lolly]

I also bought some Bocking variety rooted cuttings off eBay recently.

I sat my rooted cuttings in water for about 3 days then potted up. They seem to be doing well so far.

[cadalot]

I went to visit my little chaps tonight and they were looking a little sad until I gave them a drink, by the time I left they had bucked up again