Growing Evergreen from cutting, is alive but won't root?

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keithp2012 West Babylon, NY(Zone 7a) Apr 23, 2014

I'm trying to grow some kind of evergreen from a cutting, I don't know what it is but leaves look like a willow or olive tree. I have it in water by a sunny window and every other day dip in root hormone then clean water then add liquid fertilizer, then clean water, this is how I got my Kalanchoe to root quickly. Well this evergreen is looking great and growing new leaves, but the cutting area has not a single root, I don't know how it's staying alive but its thriving! I want it to root so I can plant it in a pot outside.

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Diana_K Contra Costa County, CA(Zone 9b) Apr 24, 2014

I would pot it into a mix that is high in sand (excellent drainage) and just use rooting hormone once. Then leave it alone. (Water it, of course).

Some plants will only root with a certain kind of cutting, perhaps at a particular time of year. Some need a bit of the main branch attached to the twig (called a heel cutting).

If you can ID the plant, perhaps you can research what it needs.
Have you posted a picture in the Plant ID forum?

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keithp2012 West Babylon, NY(Zone 7a) Apr 25, 2014

Quote from Diana_K :
I would pot it into a mix that is high in sand (excellent drainage) and just use rooting hormone once. Then leave it alone. (Water it, of course).

Some plants will only root with a certain kind of cutting, perhaps at a particular time of year. Some need a bit of the main branch attached to the twig (called a heel cutting).

If you can ID the plant, perhaps you can research what it needs.
Have you posted a picture in the Plant ID forum?


I tried and nobody could figure it out, here it is again. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2344009
Might be laurel? http://plantstoknow.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-03-22T21:55:00-07:00&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=true&m=1

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Diana_K Contra Costa County, CA(Zone 9b) Apr 25, 2014

How about Elaeocarpus decipiens, the Japanese Blueberry tree?
Aother option, how about a relative of Laurus nobilis? Laurus nobilis is the Bay that we cook with, and has slightly wider leaves. You might be able to recognize the odor, though it is a bit different when it is fresh. Related plants may not have any real fragrance, or might be strongly fragrant.
Google pictures of the fruit of each of these, see what you think.

Not willow.

If you still have access to the original plant cut open a fruit and see what it looks like inside.
Does it have sections like an apple or pear? Does it have one seed like a plum?

The attachment of the fruit to the stem with that sort of swollen part does look like Lauraceae (Not the laurels in the rose family)

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