"I just want to go swimming in them!" LOL. That cracked me up because I am so obsessed with my plants and propagating plants also. I made some extra money this summer selling a few plants here and there. I loved it so much I want to do more. My hubby says I've found my calling haha. Thanks for all the knowledge you share!
You are literally standing in my dream!!! A nice size greenhouse, surrounded by beautiful plants......AND the potential to make some money with what I LOVE. It truly doesn't get any better than that!!!! Thanks so much for sharing :)
Wow, thanks! Sometimes I need to hear that from someone else. I get use to all this after 13 years of having it set up. Believe it or not I have plans to tear it all down and build a bigger one in its place.
@@MikeKincaid79 I know what you mean...we get used to having certain things and may forget just how AWESOME it is!! If you still have room on the property, 'd build a bigger one next to or near this one instead of tearing this one down 😉 I'm super excited since watching your video....the only way to live our dreams is to get started! I look forward to watching your other videos, I've got lots to learn 😊
I LOVE YOU! I have never heard someone who matches my excitement and passion for growing plants and being able to live off the benefits in so many ways. 💖
Those are growing wild on the hillside behind us! I never knew what they were until I watched this video! They do grow at a fast rate when their roots go deep & find a water source!
Wow they certainly came along well in one year. Brilliant and it just shows exactly how you can propagate your plants to make hundreds if not thousands of new plants and increase stocks
Mike, you are a wonderful person that can make anything grow, plants, kids, even rocks, I just want to say you are, and your family, my go to people, I don't know what I would do without you guys. Love you all so much. 😁😁😊🤗🤗🤣🤣🙃🙃😇😇
Hello from Hindhead in Surrey, UK. I'm so so excited to see your lovely video - I'm so fired up! I'm putting on my wellies now and going to get busy on taking 100 cuttings of my own and seeing where it takes me, Thank you, you are amazing!
I'm so excited that you're excited, Carrie! This is why I make these videos and nothing fills me with more joy than to inspire you and see how excited you are about doing this yourself. Good luck and have fun!
That's pretty darn amazing. I am wanting to start cuttings from my huge Honeysuckle. It got so big it dragged the trellis the previous owner of the property have grown it on right off the side of the Workshop. You have inspired me. I got a huge pile of chipped branches a couple years ago from a tree service who chopped down a huge Alder Tree for me. It has shrunk by half now so thinking it is now perfect to use for a starter mix. I used the top for mulch in my back garden paths and the lower I go the finer it seems to be. I credit the use of that to you ... must have been in my future to use it as such. Thanks for sharing so much in your videos. Hope you keep them coming ... : )
You are an inspiration,sir. I am dreaming to be like you. I am a teacher by profession but gardening is my passion. Thankyou for the tips and advices. 👍
I'm in Michigan and built me a big greenhouse but im going to start teaching myself how to graph fruit trees. I also want to train trees to be a seat and braid sprouts and form them with toe downs. Good luck green thumbs up buddy.
I wonder if I can do this with boxwood. I want a hedge so much. We have had about eight scraggly, sick, damaged or dead trees removed from the front of our property, and I am trying to get the area “spruced up.”
I love these plants as they get bigger. My intention is to plant them out where they can grow huge and naturally, without pruning much. We have a lot of property so it won't be a problem.
Great video Mike I love the English Laurel. I have a whole bunch in one gallon pots. I'm thinking about up potting them to a 3 or 5 gallon pot. How do you feel about up potting plants in the winter time especially evergreens? I've always read it's okay to plant them in the ground in the fall and winter but not sure on upsizing the pot size.
I want to do that with fruit trees. I'm just starting to get my collection. Probably the Pakistan mulberry is the most rare that I have so far. Once I get it established I'm going to be making alot of clones of it.
Fruit man's most premium fuel !!!!!!!!9 I'm with you I want to feel the Earth with fruit trees !!!!!!!!9 Peace light loving gratitude bring equalizing freedom especially to all those that we'll see here and speak nothing but the loving truth !!!!!!!!9 The hidden messages in water , Masaru Emoto !!!!!!!!9 Dr. Otto Warburg Nobel Prize science 1931 !!!!!!!!9 Pineal gland !!!!!!!!9 Peace light love and gratitude bring equalizing freedom to all that see hear and speak with an awake and clear pineal mind !!!!!!!!9 HHBpHhelps Henry
That is awesome brother I just started propagating myself this year learning a lot of tips from you you keep keeping the passion for what you do I love watching this it encourages me every day to go out at least try one of these days I’ll get it and you’re going to help me along the way
Thank you so very much for teaching a beautiful green edged glad we can grow and sell easy to make a nice fence for somebody house with a green plant thank you for sharing your knowledge for the new beginners like me
Very cool! If you go plant show us what they look like. Then you could show us in another year! Amazing results. Just a quick question. How do you keep them nice and viable until you can get them in the soil at home? I took some forcinthia cuttings and by the time I got home a few hours later it was a no go too droopy and dried up.
Place in a plastic bag and spray with water, then tie the bag closed until you get home. If I'm going to be a few hours or longer, I take a cooler with me and a bag with a spray bottle.
You should check out Pineapple Guava. It makes a beautiful hedge with silvery fuzz on the underside of the leaves, delightful edible flowers and with more than one plant you get yummy fruit that taste like the flower and falls to the ground when ripe. I know it will grow well for you, I have had it in my yard for 8 years and if I was not pruning it, it would be 10-12 feet tall. It does fine in clay soil too even though it is not it's preference.
@@MikeKincaid79 Yes, I have been growing it for 8 years and the temps got down to ten degrees with no problems. I just have not been able to propagate it. I could get you a bunch of cuttings if you propagate some for me too!
@@MikeKincaid79 and the right zone. One half of our property is basically zone 3 and the other is 4b. And if the deer qnd bear don't get to everything, the mice and chipmunks like to have their fill too. Guess I have to propagate more to feed the neighborhood. Any idea what zones English laurel grow in?
I think this is the Canadian guy I just heard about from a Reddit thread video. And if so, hello! I love gardening and really want to learn how to care for plants so hopefully this channel will help me learn
Holy Cow, it's absolutely amazing the amount of growth those plants have put on in one short year! Mike, I can't wait to see these planted along side your property to block the sounds from the road. I wish I could grow English Laurel, but it isn't hardy here in my zone 5 (boohoo sniff sniff):0( Please do more follow up videos on these beautiful plants!
I love watching your videos. I’m fairly local to you. I near Bremerton Washington. Please do more vids like this. It is giving me inspiration to try my own side gig!
Sure, I can work on that. I never did many videos of making money with plants because some people get really turned off when you start bringing money into it (which I always think is weird), I mean who doesn't like more money, haha.
Looks good on the outside but doesn't really work very well. I'm hoping for more mobility out of the finger over the next 4 weeks now that I've started using my hand again in PT.
@@MikeKincaid79 lol. I really do appreciate your videos. I just recently stumbled into the hobby and am alone in the game. My friends are dorks and don’t get it. Just seeing a younger guy actually doing it, boosted my confidence and made me realize it’s possible. So thanks man
Great video Mike, I appreciate your enthusiasm and resourcefulness, and also your willingness to share the information. I am now a new subscriber. I also watched your video on how to package and ship plants in the mail, which was incredibly helpful. Does English Laurel grow in California? I live in Santa Barbara, which is in Central California. just about everything grows here.
It's a hardy plant and I'd assume it will grow there but I don't have any personal experience with growing laurel in your location. Beautiful place though. My ship (the Abraham Lincoln) pulled into Santa Barbara for a visit when I was in the Navy, back in 1999.
Enjoyed your excitement for cuttings and the rooting success. I’m in Ontario with a 5.5/6 growing zone. Regardless I’ve for the first time I have rooted coral bells with great success, I will try rhododendrons and hopefully have some luck.
We live in Washington State and I would be required to have a business license, and a horticulture license. To sell to nurseries. We have an abundance of baby Douglas fir and pine trees we’d like to pot up and sell. I’d also like to propagate many of our wild trees and shrubs like roses and elderberry, lilacs. And wildflowers. I pulled a few suckers of wild lilac and planted them on our new property. That are doing well and I’m seeing new growth.
Mike - Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Im also in Pierce county and would love to know what landscaping companies you purchase from. I need to move a few rhoadies and learning how to cut and propagate is making my lady happy that we get to keep them :)
Fantastic video, Mike! Your passion for horticulture is absolutely amazing. I wonder as a youngster if you grew plants or was it a latent gift that blossomed in adulthood.
Great work, Mike! I just clipped what I was pretty sure are cherry laurel cuttings. I believe they had some smaller white flowers at some point. Should I expect to use the same process with same success? Got confused reading about propagating different types of laurel.. some articles said they're difficult.. but which ones?
I'm not as familiar with walnut but it's the bark I use, not the wood from the tree. The shredded wood from many trees will start to attract fungus and break down, creating an unfriendly environment for cuttings. The bark doesn't break down as fast and is relatively inert.
We have an orchard of about 40 apple and 40 peach trees... just now starting to think about selling cuttings from the root balls. Do they need to stay in a greenhouse over the winter?
great follow-up video mike. things really happen fast around your place. it's gonna close off any sound from the road. say, whatever happened to your morphing fish? have the babies gotten any babies? later, carmine.
The fish are doing great and growing well. I'll have to do a follow up. Hadn't done a video on that in awhile because of all the plant videos but I'll get one up again.
Mike Kincaid cheers man it’s closed down but got a new setup coming at Christmas. How are your laurels looking now ? I’ll be planting mine all around my property to give some privacy.
Thanks so much for all your videos. They are fantastic. I noticed that there was no mention of any fertiliser being used until the plants were being potted up. Surely if I'm using sand as my medium (I have no fir bark here) then I'd have to mix in some fertiliser or organic matter of some sort while the cuttings root?
No, you actually don't want any fertilizer until after they are fully rooted. The cuttings have all the energy they need to produce roots. Fertilizer will add nutrients to the rooting medium, which will encourage molds, mildew, bacteria, and fungi and could contribute to rot.
Hey, Mike. Thanks for all the incredible content. I’ve made my way through most of your videos and am subscribed with my alerts on. I purchased your videos on building the frame and was hoping to ask you two questions: 1. I inherited a high tunnel that I am going to put plastic on and have use of for plant propagation. Will this space constitute “indirect sunlight,” as you say is required for the propagation frame? 2. I got a quote for the glass piece to go over the top and am going to take the dive, however it is quite expensive at $240. I expect it to last forever, especially if this frame is in the high tunnel. Do you think I should try to build it out with another type of cover? 3. Thank you again.
I have white plastic on mine that provides 50% shade and sometimes even that warms up the frame too much. The most ideal location is on the north side of a building so that no direct sun hits the glass. I don't keep my frames in my hoop house just for this reason. I did that propagation project with the english laurel in my hoop house but had to quickly block the sun with a 4x4 sheet of plywood. Hope that helps and let me know if you have more questions.
When you plant them for your hedge, you'll probably have them pretty close. Will you be digging individual holes or using a deep rototiller to make one or two strips?
Hay what rooting hormone would you recommend for like all purpose. If I got hormodin 2 do you think I could use lite applications and heavy applications depending on how hard the plant is to root
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you. I'll look for them. Hope your recovery is coming along smoothly. You'll back to normal (if that is possible LOL) before you know it!
Hi Mike, thank you for your time.. Are skip Laurels and English Laurels the same thing? From what I've been studying, (PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS) they are. But, I bought some skip Laurels and the leaves are a little Slimmer and a little darker than the Laurels you have here... Your laurels are beautiful! Thank you Mike!
You're right, they are different. Skip laurel is pretty but I prefer English Laurel. Skip laurel can work better in a smaller area though and doesn't require quite as much pruning.
Your passion towards gardening is beautiful to watch. Thank you Mike.
"I just want to go swimming in them!" LOL. That cracked me up because I am so obsessed with my plants and propagating plants also. I made some extra money this summer selling a few plants here and there. I loved it so much I want to do more. My hubby says I've found my calling haha. Thanks for all the knowledge you share!
It's a lot of fun, isn't it!
@@MikeKincaid79 what fertilizer do you use to grow your plants
“I just wanna go swim in them”
Haha
Fabulous. Love the energy.
Come on over and take a dive, haha
You are literally standing in my dream!!! A nice size greenhouse, surrounded by beautiful plants......AND the potential to make some money with what I LOVE. It truly doesn't get any better than that!!!! Thanks so much for sharing :)
Wow, thanks! Sometimes I need to hear that from someone else. I get use to all this after 13 years of having it set up. Believe it or not I have plans to tear it all down and build a bigger one in its place.
@@MikeKincaid79 I know what you mean...we get used to having certain things and may forget just how AWESOME it is!! If you still have room on the property, 'd build a bigger one next to or near this one instead of tearing this one down 😉
I'm super excited since watching your video....the only way to live our dreams is to get started! I look forward to watching your other videos, I've got lots to learn 😊
I LOVE YOU! I have never heard someone who matches my excitement and passion for growing plants and being able to live off the benefits in so many ways. 💖
simply amazing, im still watching and learning, way to go little bro, you have taught an old dog new tricks.
thank you sweetie, im melvin osborne on facebook
Kim from Kennewick here. Love your enthusiasm. I hold the same type of passion for growing!
I absolutely love your enthusiasm in all your videos. It’s like you can make people believe in themselves.
Well I believe in ya if nothing else, lol.
Mike your plants LOVE you just as much as you love them. It shows from the way they thrive.
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Those are growing wild on the hillside behind us! I never knew what they were until I watched this video! They do grow at a fast rate when their roots go deep & find a water source!
Wow they certainly came along well in one year. Brilliant and it just shows exactly how you can propagate your plants to make hundreds if not thousands of new plants and increase stocks
Crazy how fast they grow! Great channel, by the way.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thanks Mike, So is your pal, Great information that's passed on, quality :)
Mike, you are a wonderful person that can make anything grow, plants, kids, even rocks, I just want to say you are, and your family, my go to people, I don't know what I would do without you guys. Love you all so much. 😁😁😊🤗🤗🤣🤣🙃🙃😇😇
Well, you're family now, Glenda, and I'm glad you're a part of it.
Hello from Hindhead in Surrey, UK. I'm so so excited to see your lovely video - I'm so fired up! I'm putting on my wellies now and going to get busy on taking 100 cuttings of my own and seeing where it takes me, Thank you, you are amazing!
I'm so excited that you're excited, Carrie! This is why I make these videos and nothing fills me with more joy than to inspire you and see how excited you are about doing this yourself. Good luck and have fun!
Just a pointer, when using “used black plastic pots”, remember to clean them out and dip in a mild bleach water..and set out in the sun.
Why?
@@CHloE748 to get rid of any bacterial or fungal problems that could affect the next plant that's in the pot.
Which will increase the amount of time spent significantly. but its important.
@Anonymous City it's not about the .15, it's about the plastic waste that's poisoning the planet. Cool video, though. Contagious enthusiasm! 🙏
Thank you for the caution. Much appreciated.
Mike I am excited to see yours video & progress you have,good luck & good health.
Thank you so much!
Great video 👍👍👍
Thank you 👍
That's pretty darn amazing. I am wanting to start cuttings from my huge Honeysuckle. It got so big it dragged the trellis the previous owner of the property have grown it on right off the side of the Workshop. You have inspired me. I got a huge pile of chipped branches a couple years ago from a tree service who chopped down a huge Alder Tree for me. It has shrunk by half now so thinking it is now perfect to use for a starter mix. I used the top for mulch in my back garden paths and the lower I go the finer it seems to be. I credit the use of that to you ... must have been in my future to use it as such. Thanks for sharing so much in your videos. Hope you keep them coming ... : )
So glad the wood chips are working for you. It makes a beautiful mulch!
lovely and Beautiful greenish plants to growing more and more and happy time for you, Mike !😁😁👋👋🌿🌿🌿
Love your enthusiasm man. I feel the same way when I get stuff to grow. I'm always outside doing commentary like it's a football game, lol
It's exciting creating something out of nothing.
I dont usually comment on youtube, but i just found your channel and i think your passion for gardening is mesmerizing. Thank you!
Well I'm glad to make the grade! Thanks for watching and commenting.
That's awesome Mike! Can't wait to see them in the planted in the yard.
👀👀😉!
Hugs
Love this guys passion for his plant's....👍👍👍
Glad you enjoy it, Mark!
You are an inspiration,sir. I am dreaming to be like you. I am a teacher by profession but gardening is my passion. Thankyou for the tips and advices. 👍
Have fun on your journey. It's a wonderful hobby and business.
I'm in Michigan and built me a big greenhouse but im going to start teaching myself how to graph fruit trees. I also want to train trees to be a seat and braid sprouts and form them with toe downs. Good luck green thumbs up buddy.
Best of luck!
I love your passion! Ty Mike!
You're so welcome, Michelle!
They look great, thumbs up Mike.
Thanks, Mike!
Wow... Paitence & Time. Love it.
Great video Mike...I started a bunch of Mimosa Trees this year, growing them in 1 gallon pots. I made quite a bit from selling just these alone :)
Sweet!
Where did you sell them?
I wonder if I can do this with boxwood. I want a hedge so much. We have had about eight scraggly, sick, damaged or dead trees removed from the front of our property, and I am trying to get the area “spruced up.”
Great stuff. We had these as a hedge growing up. A lot of work keeping them hedged every year but great as a privacy screen and they grow tall
I love these plants as they get bigger. My intention is to plant them out where they can grow huge and naturally, without pruning much. We have a lot of property so it won't be a problem.
Great video Mike I love the English Laurel. I have a whole bunch in one gallon pots. I'm thinking about up potting them to a 3 or 5 gallon pot. How do you feel about up potting plants in the winter time especially evergreens? I've always read it's okay to plant them in the ground in the fall and winter but not sure on upsizing the pot size.
I want to do that with fruit trees. I'm just starting to get my collection. Probably the Pakistan mulberry is the most rare that I have so far. Once I get it established I'm going to be making alot of clones of it.
You're on your way, Mark.
Fruit man's most premium fuel !!!!!!!!9
I'm with you I want to feel the Earth with fruit trees !!!!!!!!9
Peace light loving gratitude bring equalizing freedom especially to all those that we'll see here and speak nothing but the loving truth !!!!!!!!9
The hidden messages in water , Masaru Emoto !!!!!!!!9
Dr. Otto Warburg Nobel Prize science 1931 !!!!!!!!9
Pineal gland !!!!!!!!9
Peace light love and gratitude bring equalizing freedom to all that see hear and speak with an awake and clear pineal mind
!!!!!!!!9
HHBpHhelps
Henry
Me too Mark
Your video and your passion makes wanna grow something for fun as well. Btw, more Happier to see your little finger is FINE.
Tq Mike. You are very inspirational. Stay awesome.
Hey thanks! Glad to inspire.
@@MikeKincaid79
Yes. I have a few big pots of Hydrangeas in my garden too . I followed the tips given by you. So far its ok.
Long time youtube watcher, first time viewer of your content. Love your sincere passion. Subscribed. 👍🏼
Hey, thanks a lot for the sub! Glad you're enjoying the vids.
That is awesome brother I just started propagating myself this year learning a lot of tips from you you keep keeping the passion for what you do I love watching this it encourages me every day to go out at least try one of these days I’ll get it and you’re going to help me along the way
That's it, just keep trying and working at it and you'll be a master. "Keep choosing the same thing"
Sweet! Glad I found you. ♥️
I'm glad you found me too! Have fun in the garden.
I really appreciate your enthusiasm toward this trade. Subscribed
Thanks for the sub! I appreciate it, Mark, and glad you enjoy the videos.
Awesome! Those laurels look amazing!
I just loved this so much! Thank you for the green swim!! Your energy is so awesome!
Haha, you're welcome for the green swim, Krista! That was my favorite part!
Thank you so very much for teaching a beautiful green edged glad we can grow and sell easy to make a nice fence for somebody house with a green plant thank you for sharing your knowledge for the new beginners like me
No problem, glad to help!
Love your enthusiasm! I have to go google what an English Laurel looks like--you've got me hooked!
Caught another fish!
Wow, that's amazing I remember when you planted those. Great job!!!!
Thanks Ralph! They sure have grown.
I remember when he planted them as well, I love propagating plants too, I just don't have the right set up and the energy.🙄
I'll be your energy!
That would be awesome Mike, you just need to move 3000miles though.🤗🤗💞
Very cool! If you go plant show us what they look like. Then you could show us in another year! Amazing results. Just a quick question. How do you keep them nice and viable until you can get them in the soil at home? I took some forcinthia cuttings and by the time I got home a few hours later it was a no go too droopy and dried up.
Place in a plastic bag and spray with water, then tie the bag closed until you get home. If I'm going to be a few hours or longer, I take a cooler with me and a bag with a spray bottle.
Keep doing what you're doing!
You should check out Pineapple Guava. It makes a beautiful hedge with silvery fuzz on the underside of the leaves, delightful edible flowers and with more than one plant you get yummy fruit that taste like the flower and falls to the ground when ripe. I know it will grow well for you, I have had it in my yard for 8 years and if I was not pruning it, it would be 10-12 feet tall. It does fine in clay soil too even though it is not it's preference.
I like fruiting hedges. Thought about planting figs along the front of my property but they lose their leaves and I'm looking for an evergreen hedge.
@@MikeKincaid79 Pineapple Guava is evergreen, that is why I love it for a hedge.
Oh cool, can it grow in 8b?
@@MikeKincaid79 Yes, I have been growing it for 8 years and the temps got down to ten degrees with no problems. I just have not been able to propagate it. I could get you a bunch of cuttings if you propagate some for me too!
Dude you are absolutely amazing, much love and thank you for the knowledge
My pleasure!
Great video! Swimming in them was great.
Haha, I love these English laurel, just beautiful plants if you have the space.
@@MikeKincaid79 and the right zone. One half of our property is basically zone 3 and the other is 4b. And if the deer qnd bear don't get to everything, the mice and chipmunks like to have their fill too. Guess I have to propagate more to feed the neighborhood. Any idea what zones English laurel grow in?
Zone 6-9 so you're probably too cold for them but if I lived in an area like yours I'd look into growing a hedge of doublefile viburnum.
@@MikeKincaid79 Great tip. Thank you!
Awesome show Mike. Good luck always.
Nice! I getting excited to see more follow up video like these!
GREAT SERIES
Thanks Kris!
Awesome work. Thanks
Where did you buy that pile of pot soil. The texture is really good. Please guide where to buy that soil for best price?
Awesome! Those laurels are amazing!
When you stumble across a great TH-camr and instantly subscribe.
Thanks a lot, Josh!
I'd be interested in seeing you plant those hedges for you and your brother
Yeah, I can do a video on that.
Awesome video 👍thanks for sharing 👍
Awesome job. Amigo. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks, Milton!
I think this is the Canadian guy I just heard about from a Reddit thread video. And if so, hello! I love gardening and really want to learn how to care for plants so hopefully this channel will help me learn
That's what it's all about here. Welcome to the family! By the way, I'm American but I live close enough to the Canadian border.
Nice one Mike
Thanks
Holy Cow, it's absolutely amazing the amount of growth those plants have put on in one short year! Mike, I can't wait to see these planted along side your property to block the sounds from the road. I wish I could grow English Laurel, but it isn't hardy here in my zone 5 (boohoo sniff sniff):0( Please do more follow up videos on these beautiful plants!
I'll do it!
I love watching your videos. I’m fairly local to you. I near Bremerton Washington. Please do more vids like this. It is giving me inspiration to try my own side gig!
Sure, I can work on that. I never did many videos of making money with plants because some people get really turned off when you start bringing money into it (which I always think is weird), I mean who doesn't like more money, haha.
Mike Kincaid or maybe make vids for Facebook. Keep it separated?
Thank you. I need to find the inexpensive potting material in Central Alabama. Any ideas?
Incredible! Great job as always. Your hand seems good as new!😃
Looks good on the outside but doesn't really work very well. I'm hoping for more mobility out of the finger over the next 4 weeks now that I've started using my hand again in PT.
Mike, before you know it, it will be fine. Trust me! Take care.
Thanks for the video and sharing all your great ideas. Hope your pinky is much better now. 😇
It's still attached to my hand. That's the best I can say, lol.
Thanks for the video. I’m new to the hobby and appreciate the knowledge. Also love the enthusiasm! young John gruden of the plant game !!
Haha, thanks! I've been compared to John Gruden a few times.
@@MikeKincaid79 lol. I really do appreciate your videos. I just recently stumbled into the hobby and am alone in the game. My friends are dorks and don’t get it. Just seeing a younger guy actually doing it, boosted my confidence and made me realize it’s possible. So thanks man
Great video Mike, I appreciate your enthusiasm and resourcefulness, and also your willingness to share the information. I am now a new subscriber. I also watched your video on how to package and ship plants in the mail, which was incredibly helpful. Does English Laurel grow in California? I live in Santa Barbara, which is in Central California. just about everything grows here.
It's a hardy plant and I'd assume it will grow there but I don't have any personal experience with growing laurel in your location. Beautiful place though. My ship (the Abraham Lincoln) pulled into Santa Barbara for a visit when I was in the Navy, back in 1999.
Enjoyed your excitement for cuttings and the rooting success. I’m in Ontario with a 5.5/6 growing zone. Regardless I’ve for the first time I have rooted coral bells with great success, I will try rhododendrons and hopefully have some luck.
Glad you're having success, good luck with the rhododendrons!
We live in Washington State and I would be required to have a business license, and a horticulture license. To sell to nurseries. We have an abundance of baby Douglas fir and pine trees we’d like to pot up and sell. I’d also like to propagate many of our wild trees and shrubs like roses and elderberry, lilacs. And wildflowers. I pulled a few suckers of wild lilac and planted them on our new property. That are doing well and I’m seeing new growth.
Very beautiful plants.
Mike - Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Im also in Pierce county and would love to know what landscaping companies you purchase from. I need to move a few rhoadies and learning how to cut and propagate is making my lady happy that we get to keep them :)
I get my bark from Julie's Construction in Mckenna.
Amazing ideas
I propagate putinia plants as per your advice and find positive result
Awesome! So glad to hear it.
1:54 proud of your work the best man beoutifl work
Fantastic video, Mike! Your passion for horticulture is absolutely amazing. I wonder as a youngster if you grew plants or was it a latent gift that blossomed in adulthood.
My Dad was an avid vegetable gardening so I was always working in gardens growing up. I didn't discover taking cuttings until I was older.
Great work, Mike! I just clipped what I was pretty sure are cherry laurel cuttings. I believe they had some smaller white flowers at some point. Should I expect to use the same process with same success? Got confused reading about propagating different types of laurel.. some articles said they're difficult.. but which ones?
They're the same plant and very easy to propagate!
This man is the Steve Irwin of plants
Best compliment ever!
Mike, I've got a pile of finely shred walnut stump. It looks like it would make a good potting medium. What do you think?
I'm not as familiar with walnut but it's the bark I use, not the wood from the tree. The shredded wood from many trees will start to attract fungus and break down, creating an unfriendly environment for cuttings. The bark doesn't break down as fast and is relatively inert.
Great series Mike!
Thanks Dana!
We have an orchard of about 40 apple and 40 peach trees... just now starting to think about selling cuttings from the root balls. Do they need to stay in a greenhouse over the winter?
If the parent plant is cold hardy to your area, the rooted cuttings are just as strong.
Tomato cuttings (use the suckers) will root in about 2 weeks.
great follow-up video mike. things really happen fast around your place. it's gonna close off any sound from the road. say, whatever happened to your morphing fish? have the babies gotten any babies? later, carmine.
The fish are doing great and growing well. I'll have to do a follow up. Hadn't done a video on that in awhile because of all the plant videos but I'll get one up again.
Wow, amazing!!
Thank you, Teresa!
I will be trying this in the spring for sure ! Could you plant them when they had the roots in video 3 ? Fantastic series
Yes, you can plant newly rooted cuttings immediately.
Mike Kincaid excellent thanks for the reply I will be doing this in the spring.
By the way, that's a beautiful 180 gallon tank you have.
Mike Kincaid cheers man it’s closed down but got a new setup coming at Christmas. How are your laurels looking now ? I’ll be planting mine all around my property to give some privacy.
Is wonder what this plant looks like when full grown. I'll try to check your prior videos
I don't have any video of it full grown but if you use google images, there are tons of photos of these plants.
Thanks so much for all your videos. They are fantastic. I noticed that there was no mention of any fertiliser being used until the plants were being potted up. Surely if I'm using sand as my medium (I have no fir bark here) then I'd have to mix in some fertiliser or organic matter of some sort while the cuttings root?
No, you actually don't want any fertilizer until after they are fully rooted. The cuttings have all the energy they need to produce roots. Fertilizer will add nutrients to the rooting medium, which will encourage molds, mildew, bacteria, and fungi and could contribute to rot.
@@MikeKincaid79 Mind blown. Love your content and your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep it up!
Hey, Mike. Thanks for all the incredible content. I’ve made my way through most of your videos and am subscribed with my alerts on. I purchased your videos on building the frame and was hoping to ask you two questions:
1. I inherited a high tunnel that I am going to put plastic on and have use of for plant propagation. Will this space constitute “indirect sunlight,” as you say is required for the propagation frame?
2. I got a quote for the glass piece to go over the top and am going to take the dive, however it is quite expensive at $240. I expect it to last forever, especially if this frame is in the high tunnel. Do you think I should try to build it out with another type of cover?
3. Thank you again.
I have white plastic on mine that provides 50% shade and sometimes even that warms up the frame too much. The most ideal location is on the north side of a building so that no direct sun hits the glass. I don't keep my frames in my hoop house just for this reason. I did that propagation project with the english laurel in my hoop house but had to quickly block the sun with a 4x4 sheet of plywood. Hope that helps and let me know if you have more questions.
Mike Kincaid thank you for the guidance.
When you plant them for your hedge, you'll probably have them pretty close. Will you be digging individual holes or using a deep rototiller to make one or two strips?
individual holes
When do you take clippings of rhododendrons? Awesome work
Thanks. Take the cuttings in late summer, August time frame.
Hay what rooting hormone would you recommend for like all purpose. If I got hormodin 2 do you think I could use lite applications and heavy applications depending on how hard the plant is to root
Dip and grow is a great one for all purpose applications because you can dilute it to whatever strength you want.
This was an incredible video. Any chance that you will show how to prune new shrubbery or trees?
I've got a few videos about pruning young plants and cuttings but I can make another.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you. I'll look for them. Hope your recovery is coming along smoothly. You'll back to normal (if that is possible LOL) before you know it!
That Crow was saying to his CrowTube subscribers, “you guys hear that Dude making all that noise!” Updates would be great!
Haha, I'll keep it in mind.
Like your greenhouse, how do you keepinsects gets into it?
I really don't do much for insects. The only thing I do is treat for ants around the outside if I see them. Some years it's not a problem.
You should do another project like this one
I'll put my mind to it.
Cooking bay is Laurus nobilis, hedging Laurel is prunus laurocerasus. Correct Latin name is Important especially if you want to eat it.
Really good info, thank you 🇬🇧
No problem Jon 👍
Do the English Laurel flower like the mountain laurel? Can you do a video of a lime light hydrangea tree/bush cutting, rooting and update?
2 different plants that don't flower the same. The English Laurel get small white flowers but they aren't very showy.
I love your video’s
Thanks, Gina! Glad you're enjoying them.
So good
Thanks!
Hi Mike, thank you for your time.. Are skip Laurels and English Laurels the same thing? From what I've been studying, (PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS) they are. But, I bought some skip Laurels and the leaves are a little Slimmer and a little darker than the Laurels you have here... Your laurels are beautiful! Thank you Mike!
Hi Mike, after extensive study, I conclud that the Skip laurel and the English are different even though they are both Prunus laurocerasus.
You're right, they are different. Skip laurel is pretty but I prefer English Laurel. Skip laurel can work better in a smaller area though and doesn't require quite as much pruning.
I've been trying to look into the legality of growing bulbs and other plants to sell, what are the rules on this? Will be in violation of patents etc?
Every plant is different. You'll have to research the bulbs you want to sell and make sure that each individual variety is free of patent.