Lemongrass

Hello and Happy New Year!

In the autumn I dug up my lemongrass (grown from seed last year) and saved some of the pieces to make new ones. These pieces rooted well in jars of water on the windowsill but when I came to pot them up (in ordinary potting compost ) all but one of them promptly died.

Does anyone know how am I going wrong please?

If I understand you right, a few things spring to mind:

1. You are trying to propagate in the winter instead of spring time

2. From a young, unestablished plant

3. It already had roots why to cut them off and try to get new ones?

4. You are not supposed to harvest in the first year of a seedling anyway

5. Roots easily break off/injure during planting, they need to be 1-2 inches and the slips deeply planted

One of these could be it, for example.

Thank you both for replies - I think that my potting compost might be the problem and perhaps also the timing, the latter i did in autumn as the dug up plants don't survive overwinter           (or mine don,t anyway!).

Everybody's does, if much cold gets at them. Why not try them again in pots and move indoors in the autumn. In must be milder down there, too.