Plant the cutting in a two-inch pot filled with soilless potting mix. Rooting compounds speeds the development of roots. Mums rooted easily and it is possible to successfully root cuttings without using rooting compounds. Put the pots in plastic bags or it in a cold frame. Do not allow them to dry out in.
Roots develop in between two and three weeks.
Some gardeners like to move the rooted cuttings into larger pots for additional growth before setting them into the garden. The young plants can also be held in a nursery bed during the summer and set into the garden in late summer. Cushion mums may be flowered in six-inch pots and then discarded after blooming. Planting in the garden Chrysanthemums grow in almost any well-drained soil. To do well they should be the fertilized regularly and kept well water.