Tropicals & Tender Perennials: rooting short 2" cuttings, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
OK.. we're getting to it... now green cuttings are difficult to root..... and these little bunches of leaves.. are almost a new limb.. and in letting thesee grow out just a little bit.. so they look like the photo above... I'm able to break them off the trunk.. and provide the standard form I'm looking for.. so I thought why not root these.. and see how they do... so just breaking them off.. and sticking the end into soil... I found they... with so much new growth energy.. they root quite easily.. and don't limp out like a little green cutting... these are really just a bunch of leaves... a would be limb... but they seem to root extreamly well.. and each standard to be.. is the source of dozens of leaf clumps.. new trees... with just the pruning to shape...
here's the leaf bunches... all still going strong... no hormones.. or rooting gentts.. just stuck in the soil near by... 100% take rate so far.. and a great way to cut on some of my better plants... while just maintaining their form..