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when to repot cuttings

 
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Is there any guidelines on when it is okay to report cuttings from a large container into individual pots?
I have a bunch of Goumi cuttings and Mulberry cuttings that I want to remove from the humidity and heat and let them try warm and dry environment in my grow room.
 
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Dennis, i think in mild weather you can repot them when they have pretty tiny rootlets, but you need to have a very small transpiration area. for softwood cuttings normally they leave only 2 leaves I think (at least I do). And they need to be in mild weather. I very much neglect them at that stage and as long as we are looking for a reasonable stretch (not very hot or dry, or with a freeze) I just put them where they will stay with a couple leaves. Maybe a little hardening period for a few days first.
 
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Would several small leaves be an indication that small roots are forming?  

I will still keep this in my grow room at 80F for a couple more months but want to take them out of the humidity tent and put them under fluorescent lights.

I can keep them on a heat mat for a while but want to harden them up to dry air before I harden them up to cooler weather in late March.

Here are the goumi and some mulberry (World's Best Mulberry). I did remove the berries to let the cutting focus energy of leaves.

Do these look developed enough to have roots formed?
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Goumi cuttings
Goumi cuttings
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Mulberry cuttings
Mulberry cuttings
 
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You can pull one of them out and see, if you are gentle should be fine. I would suspect they are not quite there.
 
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