Living in Anjou , France,
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http://www.permies.com/t/80/31583/projects/Permie-Pennies-France#330873
Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
http://www.permies.com/t/80/31583/projects/Permie-Pennies-France#330873
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Alder Burns wrote:Surprisingly a lot of folks don't know that tomatoes root easily! One year I lost almost my entire crop of 500 plants to a late freeze, but I had a few plants left in a cold frame. I let these grow, cut off all the "suckers" and tips for cuttings, and had almost my entire planting back, it was just two or three weeks later to produce!
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I'm currently testing growing beaked hazelnuts from cuttings just stuck in the ground (livestakes). I soaked them in a willow water mix first and then stuck them in the ground in small bunches of several cuttings. That was done several months ago and so far the cuttings are still alive but I don't know if they have rooted yet. I'm waiting till summer to see how they grow before saying if it worked or not. Tried it last year without success but I did not use a willow water mix and I got them in the ground late in spring.
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Daron Williams wrote:
I'm currently testing growing beaked hazelnuts from cuttings just stuck in the ground (livestakes). I soaked them in a willow water mix first and then stuck them in the ground in small bunches of several cuttings. That was done several months ago and so far the cuttings are still alive but I don't know if they have rooted yet. I'm waiting till summer to see how they grow before saying if it worked or not. Tried it last year without success but I did not use a willow water mix and I got them in the ground late in spring.
Hello all, I wanted to give an update to my test. I'm afraid that none of my cuttings survived the summer. But I did have a number of them leaf out and even start growing but they did not develop enough roots to survive the extreme drought we had.
I'm still not convinced that they can't be grown this way since the soils I put them in were fairly poor. Since the experiment I have mulched the area heavily and just today I was out digging there and the soil has already improved a lot. When I did the live staking I had to pound in a metal post first to get a hole that I could put the cuttings into. But today I could dig fairly easily just using a shovel. It is amazing what mulching can do to improve the soil!
One day I will run this test again with a few changes but I wanted to update you all on the results of the test.
Sincerely,
Ralph
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I've been doing herb cuttings for almost a decade and it's fairly easy. the past few years i got better with tropical ornamental plants and it's been touch and go with 20-30 percent success rate on various hibiscus and the others i listed on an earlier post on this thread. 2019 i went at it even harder and now i can successfully root 6 out of 10 cuttings.James Landreth wrote:...success with cuttings? When did you take the cuttings? did you use rooting hormone or willow water (or nothing at all)? Did you use heat mats or some sort of greenhousing
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Thanks for that Leila! I took some aronia cuttings a month ago and the buds kind of opened and they died. I took more a week ago and the buds are open and I see baby leaves. No guarantee of roots but at least they got a bit farther.leila hamaya wrote:for most plants the time is NOW, this ...when plants are just coming out of dormancy is an excellent time to take cuttings.
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Hugo Morvan wrote:My little nursery contains sage, mint, glycerine, comfrey, japanese quince, laurel, tarragon and sea buckthorn had some roots
Figs ,campsis, forsythia and hazels were real cuttings.
The hazels are doing better then i expected 33 of 48 show some kind of leavea coming, a few look promising, like they have enough foliage to get energy for making roots. I got a rainbarrel closeby full of water and cuttings of willow which have grown roots, i use this water every week and poor it with all the nursery to promote root growth.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
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James Landreth wrote:Is now an inappropriate time to air layer?
Hugo Morvan wrote:Wow Scott! Amazing result, i've never tried air layering before, but will give it a shot if one of my hazel cuttings get established. It is a quicker way to increase your hazel stock because you probably could air layer these again somewhere in the next year while i would have to wait four years before i can get cuttings. Exponential growth is easier with air layering. When did you air layer them?
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