Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Corylus avellana 'Contorta', 1 by johnnyvino

johnnyvino wrote:
Contorted filbert are a pain. We just stuck our first batch of cuttings on Friday. We keep our stock plant in 5 gallon containers in a greenhouse to promote early growth every season and take the cuttings off of the new growth only, when the sticks are about 1/4". If you take them much larger, they don't root as well. We dip them in dip'n grow 10-1 solution, stick them in pumice and place them under a mist system and get about 70% take. It can take 3 to 4 weeks for them to root. Corylus is not easy, but it can be if you get the timing perfect. We've seen takes up to 90% and as low as 5% when they didn't get enough mist.