Tree Talk: Live Staking

Learn about Live Staking, the free and easy tree/shrub planting technique!
To learn more, read our newest article about live staking at www.alliancefo..., or visit www.forestsforthebay.org for more forest management resources.
Edited by Allyson Wells. Filmed by Allyson Wells and Maureen Walsh

[@jacobporter6170]

Can I do this late April?

[@forestsforthebay4784]

The dormant season is best but it's worth a try, especially on a small scale!

[@jacobporter6170]

@@forestsforthebay4784thank you I only need about 4

[@Lou_Mansfield]

Can you show us how to propagate other native shrubs and trees as well? I have half an acre to work with

[@christopherarbor6208]

This is super helpful. Thank you. I was going to cut stakes, but based on your advice, I'll wait for to six weeks.

[@captaincoyote1792]

Can you live stake ANY native conifer? I live in New England….retired military, and retired federal land manager and law enforcement officer. You did a fine job explaining….but lately, I’ve wondered about propagating healthy conifers that seem resistant (individual to individual) to various pests (i.e. wooly adelgid).

[@forestsforthebay4784]

Not that I know of, unfortunately!

[@swayback7375]

Conifers take significantly longer to root up than angiosperms… some of them require 2 years or more under ideal conditions to begin to root, others are less stubborn

[@mikeclement5383]

Very good. Should have more views.

[@forestsforthebay4784]

Thanks Mike! :)

[@jwiereng]

1:35 gotta get some Felco pruners - cuts small fresh cornus like butter

[@thetrooper1061]

Dogwood and willow have evolved like that because of beaver!!!

[@joshward7009]

can live staking be done with other species of trees/bushes if you use rooting hormone?

[@roadwarrior280]

Would work with buttonbush as well ?Maple viburnam?

[@forestsforthebay4784]

It does work well with buttonbush! And I haven't tried maple-leaf viburnum, but it works with nannyberry viburnum (Viburnum lentago) too!

[@markjones5561]

Thank you for this. I have pussy willow a bush dogwood that I'll be live staking next winter in a riparian area that has been quite badly eroded over last year's very wet season

[@zgoalscorer8450]

i bought 3 of them online and there growing great but there separate growing. I just bought another one at garden center and that was a bush like with a huge stem and a dozen branches coming off of it. will
the ones i got online be that in time