Hardwood Propagation (with bottom heat) - Update 1
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Update 1 on a series on propagating high value food bearing plants from hardwood cuttings using a basic bottom heat method. Part 1 can be found here:
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So far, so good! It's moving along with hundreds of valuable cuttings starting to root, only about 2 weeks after starting. Very promising!
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Yay! The honey water is working. That's WONDERFUL!
Very cool, to date I have only started 2 purple tree collards from cuttings, I am looking forward to trying more. Thanks for knowledge and taking the time to share.
Danny Peace I'm experimenting with collard and kale stalks too. They were wanting to flower, so I ripped them out and buried them horizontally at edges in the garden. if they take, I'm hoping they'll be a mini food forest for my free range hens to enjoy. Hope your experiment works for you. Happy gardening!
I need to figure out where I am going to plant them, the taste of the leaves is amazing. I live on the gulf coast of Florida, so I am a little worried about the heat, I think I might wait for our winter.
Danny, I'm in the low desert of CA. I planted last Fall and they've begun to flower here. That's why I pulled them. I consider most brassicas to be Winter food here. Tree collards probably won't go to flower as easily though.
Now, for the hot weather crops, i'm starting chard, which I know thrives. I'm also experimenting with amaranth and new Zealand spinach. As a manageable weed and subsistence food, I allow a few lambs quarter every 3 to 5 feet, to grow just outside my planters. I train them up to give filtered shade to the planters when temp are over 10 here. Young Leaves are edible, cooked like spinach, but it takes alot. It's related to chia, and the seeds appear similar... but I haven't researched enough to try them. They produce a lot of seed and its easily harvested.
Curious what works for your garden?
I have done very well with the brassicas this year, my Red Russian kale is massive, and provides more food than I can eat and give away. I had great success with broccoli this year, wish I would have planted more. I have about 300-400 fruit on my 2 yellow pear tomato right now, in a few months it will be too hot, even for them. I am starting to focus a lot more on perennial edibles, I want start a food forest. Lost a lot of squash (it just doesn't like me, every gardener has one). Try a Purple Tree Collard, they should not bolt, in fact the can live for over a decade, they are also an old hybrid and the only way to propagate it through cuttings. They are very hardy, I believe Dan from Plant Abundance has a few videos on them. Look out for me I think I am going to make a video and post it in the next couple of days. Please watch and make fun of how terrible it's gonna be, as it will be my first.
Will do... have fun. I should do one myself, but find many excuses.
Marvellous how any cell in a plant can change function from stem to leaf to root to trunk etc
Isn't it cool!
Thanks for the update! I got some seaberry plants from a friend about a month ago. One was a decent size female plant that was too big to fit in my car so I had to cut it back. I decided to try just sticking the cuttings in the ground to see what would happen. So far out of about 20 cuttings ranging in very small (5" long and skinnier than a pencil) to large (over a foot long and thicker than a pencil) all are growing leaves and seem to be doing good. It is warmer here (nights mid to upper 30's or 40's and highs in the 40's or low 50's) and has also been wet. All the cuttings were showing signs of budding before I put them in the ground and have now been in the ground for almost a month. Not sure how they will do through the summer but I'm hopeful a good number will survive.
Thats very exciting. I hope it works for you! Please update me in the fall to let me know if they survived the summer. They may be leafing out but not forming roots, but I'm hoping they are doing something magic for you!
I really love your videos. Here, I appreciate how you have used honey. Fantastic elaboration. Very thankful you are spending your effort in sharing your knowledge
My pleasure Tim. It's pretty rewarding for me, too
Very exciting! I tried hardwood cuttings for the first time with some Concord grape vines. After some time they grew new leaves, but then all the leaves immediately died. I saw no further growth so pulled the cuttings up. None of them had roots or even what I could see as proto-roots. Very disappointed. Is is normal for cuttings to put out a bunch of leaves that immediately die off?
This reflects exactly my only rooting experience (currants).
I would think its possible you had the cuttings in a warm place? Maybe a greenhouse or indoors? You'll notice as a strong theme with this series that I suggest the importance of heat from the bottom, but cool tops... That maintains dormancy with the leaves but stimulates growth below ground. If you have it warm enough for them to break dormancy they'll leaf out before they can root and will most likely die...
Good advice, thank you. Yeah, I have a plastic dome over them, so I'm sure it kept the top warm and humid. I was following someone's advice, but it was clearly a mistake.
OK, so maybe this offers clarity... The plastic dome is appropriate with 'softwood cuttings' which you can look up. I'll be offering videos on this as the season presents the right time. In the scenario where the plant is already in leaf when you cut it, you need a way to keep in moisture so it doesn't dry out. When dormant, or 'hardwood cutting' stage, the dome is not only unnecessary but also creates the problem situation you experienced... Always new stuff to figure out!
I'll do more research specifically on dormant grapevine cuttings. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Can you just stick nanking cherry branches in the ground to root?
I have had weak results with that, but I will keep trying. A few made roots for me in the past, so it's possible/promising.
You mentioned honey but what do you think of using aspirin or willow cuttings, too? Thanks!
I haven't used asprin..
I've heard of people having good success with willow, I should give it a shot.
This is one of the best videos for propagation. How do you water the cuttings?
Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful! I water with a standard watering can, ideally with a 'rose' head or a more gentle flow than a heavy waterer. I try to use relatively clean water, ideally rain water, and no chlorine or compost tea or anything. You want the whole system to be light on nutrients. I don't water a lot, just when things start to feel dry.
What kind of honey should I use for a rooting hormone substitute? Does the quality of honey matter?
I'm not sure, but I would suspect raw and healthy honey would be ideal.
Very interesting and informative. Can this method be used to propagate all fruit bearing plants? Do you start them in the spring or in the fall? Could one start them outside or is it necessary to plant them in a green house?
Outside is fine, maybe even better.. I only really propagate edible stuff, so yes on fruit bearing, and both spring and fall work... Spring for bottom heat, fall for just sticking in the soil...
Thanks for the info.
Which part of a raspberry would you use for propagation? Would you use a cane that has fruited for a year or would you wait to use it it the second year? Would you use sprouts also?
good job👍 do u ship green collard or fig cuttings to Singapore?
NS Moe just shove some fig sticks in the ground no need to bother the fellas at the post office
Good call... Find them locally and propagate them yourself. Save money, fuel, time and empower yourself!
we don't have both here. not many people own land.
Do u know that Singapore is the most expensive city in the world?
NS Moe where would you plant your rooted cutting then?
Blackcurrant you can cut and stick cuttings at the same time in spring right in the ground where you want it to grow, no matter with buds or new leaves on it, it will grow no problem, 5 years I do all surviving no problem
Miraculous plant isn't it!
EdibleAcres Yes it is 😃 ,,, I got many everywhere, like 50 so,
Right on! I'm waiting to see how mine do this spring as well. I've been adding willow water, maybe I should try the honey instead. Funny oxymoron here due to the amount of development, native species (naturally occurring and prolific) are triple the price at a nursery! To mitigate development it's required to have a Mitigation Landscape Plan with reciepts from a nursery that is on their list. I'm trying to have natives just because it's good practice but I can't afford a $35 1 gallon pot (x100 plants!)
I do not quite understand the points here, relating to a Mitigation Landscape Plan and what you are saying. I am somewhat of a noob, so if you can explain I would learn something. I know you have a point, I just don’t get all of it. Thanks.
I'm learning a lot from your videos. Great job of getting to the point with a scientific observational approach. I know that here, to get pomegranates going, just use some cuttings as stakes in the garden. There's a good chance some will root. This year I'm trying to get apple rootstock going from my dad's tree. if it takes, next year I'll need to graft. My attempts at grafting have failed in the past. That's why I'm watching and gleaning from your channel. Good job.
Can you do this with maple?
I am pretty sure you can not. I would suggest looking into seed.
If I were a man of better means you would have a new camera in the mail today!
No worries. Folks can enjoy the camera figuring out its focus for now! Doesn't bother me as long as it doesn't bother others. Someone rich and impatient can send me something fancy, until then, we're all set! :)