Propagation: PLANT PROPAGATION.....THE BASICS II, 1 by growin

growin wrote:
Hey Jnette,

I wish I had a nursery. The plants cuttings hopefully root, they go into 4" pots for winter in the greenhouse and are potted up to 1 gallon pots in spring for sale next year. There's normally a percentage of cuttings that don't take but it's kind of a guess. If you over-produce, you can always throw out the weak ones. These are heated tables on auto-misting.

Ya, it's kinda hard to describe those sticks but they work so well. Let's say that flat in my first image is 14" wide, so I grab the 14" wide stick with nails already hammered through it every inch. I take the stick horizontally with the nails pointing into the soil and gently press the nails into the flat. I gently lift the stick that is horizontal straight up while wiggling it to keep the holes clean and, "voila!" A set of holes spaced out at 1" from each other for the entire width of the flat. I used a broken pencil in the Daphne flat though and they weren't straight lines but the cuttings were so small.