- 1). Select a healthy, vigorous Confederate rose hibiscus shrub from which to take a cutting. Make sure it is free of insect pests and diseases.
- 2). Use a sharp scissors or penknife to take a 12-inch cutting from new growth on the Confederate rose hibiscus shrub, trying to include at least three leaf nodes. Do this in Mid-March or April. According to the Texas A and M University Horticultural website, although cuttings can be taken at any time, they root easiest in the early spring.
- 3). Remove the leaves from the first 4 inches of the cutting. Sprinkle out enough rooting hormone powder for one use, and dip the basal--or cut--end of the cutting to a depth of 1 inch into the powder. Roll the cutting to ensure an even layer of powder abut 1/16 of an inch thick; this will promote symmetrical rooting all around. Don't let the rooting hormone powder contact any other part of the cutting. Discard the unused powder.
- 4). Fill a small clay flowerpot with fast-draining potting mix, and use a pencil to poke a hole in the middle of it to avoid disturbing the powder on the cutting. Insert the basal end of the cutting into the hole, and firm the potting mix around it.
- 5). Spray the Confederate rose hibiscus cutting and the potting mix with a mister, and affix a plastic bag over the pot to maintain humidity. Place in indirect light, and remove the bag every few days to ventilate and mist the cutting and check that soil is still moist.
- 6). Check to see if rooting has occurred by probing gently at the base of the Confederate rose hibiscus cutting with the pencil. Transplant the cutting to a larger pot when roots develop, and place in a sunny windowsill.
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