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Black Marseilles Spaghetti Roots

Posted by loslunasfarms 7, New Mexico (My Page) on
Fri, Jan 11, 08 at 0:29

I some of you are having a hard time, but the papertowel method works! Here are some pics after I put in in fluffly soil. I now go straight to fluffly potting soil after rooting in the papertowel. Email me if you have any questions.


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RE: Black Marseilles Spaghetti Roots

Loslunasfarms: These are just beautiful results.
Could you put a little more details when you say papertowel method. Did you put the cuttings in plastic bag after wrapping in wet papertowel, was the whole length covered wiith towel or the end left open, at what temperature etc, and how long were the roots when planted in the soil mixture.


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Good Job Jose:In specially on this hard to root cultivar.
Tell you the true this plastic bag method did not work very well for me.
I think it has something to do with the local climate,as in west verses east,JMHO.
Best regards


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Ottawan,

Give me a few days, I am pruning my orchard tomorrow! After that I will be more than glad to show my vermiculite-less baggie rooting.

Herman, thanks!


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  • Posted by hlyell 8 Jackson, MS (My Page) on
    Sat, Jan 12, 08 at 16:53

Great looking roots Jose.


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Here are pic of the BM getting up potted:


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  • Posted by bill44 6 south jersey (My Page) on
    Wed, Jan 23, 08 at 16:48

So far I have rooted four Bl. Mars. I started them in the bag and after almost four weeks only roots on one. So I
put the other three in cups with potting mix. after a few weeks they rooted. But not roots like the ones in the above photos. They look great! Bill.


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I accidentally renamed my directory where I kept the photos and killed the photos I had posted. For the record I used a UPM and perlite mixture.


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Beautiful job , those roots look great!
Look so good a little of my homemade sauce and well nevermind.........
I like your bottle method as well gives me an idea when my ucdavis order comes.
Many thanks for bringing this back up as i dont recall seeing it the first time.
Martin


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what worked me, I just had a branch and sticked in a container with water and left it outside and it started rooting in water. When I saw the roots, I planted in potting soil. Now, leaves are growing on it. I just transfered it on a bigger pot yesterday.


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I tried the baggie method with no success at all.

These were stuck Jan 7 using the two liter method. The "soil" is a mix of peat, sand, and bark. It's what I have used in the past with other cuttings and figured it would work here. I have others in the container pictured below that were stuck 2 weeks ago.

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  • Posted by gorgi z6b NJ (My Page) on
    Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 16:18

You guys/gals very successful with the baggie method...
I had some mixed results. My main problem is transfering
those "very" fragile new roots into the next potting medium.

My earlier matra had always been NOT to disturb any new
fragile roots.

Recenlty, I am seeing myself going back straitght into the
potting cup (skipping the bag).
It had worked for me before.
OK, as a (bag) compromise, I do much less initial watering,
in a subdued environment, for ~2 weeks, thinking that if/when any roots
develop, they just go STRAIGHT to where they belong - the soil.


 
 

 

 


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