How to Grow Salvia Divinorum Indoors
- 1). Select a healthy salvia branch from 4 to 8 inches in length or purchase a live salvia divinorum cutting. Cut the branch just below a node--the swelling from which the leaves emerge. Trim off the leaves attached to the bottom node.
- 2). Fill a small drinking glass with clean warm water two inches deep. Set the cutting in the glass with node down. Keep the cutting in indirect light in a warm room and maintain the water level between 1-1/2 inches and 2 inches.
- 3). Add gravel to the clay flower pot in a layer 2 inches deep. Fill the pot with potting soil and water thoroughly. Set the pot aside until planting day.
- 4). Transplant the salvia divinorum cutting to the pot after one week or when the rootlets measure between 1/4 inch and 3/4 inch long. Make a hole in the potting soil 2 inches deep and 1-1/2 inches wide. Hold the cutting in the planting hole and carefully fill the hole with potting soil. Water to settle the soil and remove air pockets.
- 5). Set the three dowels equally spaced at the rim of the pot and push them 6 inches deep in the soil.
- 6). Pull the transparent bag down over the supporting dowels and tie the bottom tightly around the pot with garden twine. After five days cut slits in one side to allow adjustment to open air. Two or three days later, remove the bag.
- 7). Feed the plant a half-strength liquid plant food solution after one month. Use the half-strength formula for the first three feedings, and then shift to a full strength solution.
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