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Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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Posted by sibhskylvr (Mike) Arkansas (My Page) on Wed, Oct 7, 09 at 13:46
| I know 'green' cuttings are sometimes very difficult to root. Is there an 'easy' way? Let's hear your thoughts, ideas, success, & unsuccessful stories!
Mike |
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| Mike, I have had success rooting green brug cuttings in soil with lots of perlite mixed in. Water the cuttings in once, then set it in a cooler, humid place and forget about it. I have even succesfully rooted a green cutting of Arborea, a green cutting of a sang/vulc cross, and culebra this way. |
RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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| I've been using the expanded clay pellets in the cloning chamber since last year but haven't had much luck with green cuttings. I've tried all kinds of methods. The only time I have decent results with green stems is in the late spring and summer and even then my results are iffy. Randy who occasionally posts about his vulc on this forum seems to have very good results with green stems. He posts mainly on the passiflora forum and I know he has a recent post about rooting passies but am not sure if he uses the same method for his brug cuttings. I'll ask him to check in here unless he sees this thread beforehand. |
RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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How small of tip cuttings do you want to root?
These photos are a couple yrs old now but I still root them the same way :) small 3 0z size plastic cup with plastic wrap over lights. It is important to keep the humidity very high for green cuttings because they can loose moisture though thier stems as well as leaves etc. just barely cover the bottom with water and change it every day. When you go to take it out when rooted, do so gradually...like the first few days just pull back the plastic then the next few days take it off all the way etc... 
This one is only a few inches or so long. I think it was a MADM cutting.
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RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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| I dust them with rooting hormone and put in tiny pots or just stick them in the edges of pots if the weather is warm with the mother plant. I have a tall cylinder clear glass that I have used in the window sill with green skinny ones and just put an inch of water in the bottom and it keeps the humidity in there with it being so tall. I made a little propagating chamber with a take out tall clear plastic soup container and put holes in the top and bottom and put a small bowl beneath it to catch the run off when I water and I can see the roots forming and slowly crack the lid more and more until I can take it off. The water in the bottom bowl provides humidity as it evaporates. |
RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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| Karyn, you might want to try no pellets in your cloner. I've had lots of luck with green cuttings in the dead of winter using my cloner. Just stick it in and forget it. 
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RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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Okay wow totaly saved so many of these post lol. What is a cloner I have been trying to fig it out and I havent been able to find some sight that tells me how it works? and a propagating chamber wow yep I need to buy some books lol please fill me in.
Thanks
Cassie |
RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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| Cassie there was a post on this forum about them....if you do a search....I am sure you find it. Karyn has one also. I am a little short on time this morning or I would search. I just came back to upload the pictures I just took. We must have had a pretty bad storm during the night and it even broke of one of the GREEN branches of my new blooming seedling :-((( So, little did I know that I needed to know how to do green cuttings. I always stayed away from it because of reading all the time how hard they are to root. Doing the cup and plastic method. thanks Mike that you started this...I guess you knew it was coming lol Lucy |
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Thanks Lucy I dont know why I didnt think og that lol so offeten I go serching on the world wide web but heck I find more info here lolol.sorry about your seedling. I am doing one in a baggy with a shot glass lolololl
Thanks
Cassie |
RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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| Thanks Mike, for starting the post and to everybody who posted. Very informative. I clipped a few posts:)) I'll go and search what is a cloner too. Pat |
RE: Rooting Green 'Tip' Cuttings! An Easy Way??
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Thanks for the info about the cloner, Im planning on making
my own, I just typed cloner on google and came up with the
info on how to make one. Karen |
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