what cuttings at this time?

What cuttings can be started at this time of year,can I start grapes in the GH if I take cuttings now?what else from outside?
How'bout tropicals?Passiflora?tibochina?
Any suggestions?
Also,got yancy (cabin fever) and bought an avacado,pineapple,quince,persimmon,and a mango,any sugestions on how to start them?
Can the avacado go in potting soil instead of water?

tried to find a star fruit but they were all gone,gunna try in town
Any others I can start?

not very much unless you have a propagator, a heated greenhouse and sodium lights to keep the cuttings growing at an optimum rate

HEY!the persimmon has no seeds.Whats up with that?

mark,I do have a heated GH,all my tropicals are in there,no extra lighting though......
I do have lights and heat in the house where I start my seeds.......

CC, hardwood cuttings can be started now, and over the next couple months.
I'm just preparing to do ginkgos. You will need hardwood hormones. Look them up, but basically, you cut off leafless branches, dip them, keep them in damp sand in a cool place, and in early spring check to make sure they have some callus. If they do, plant them 1/3 into soil, and there ya go.
I could be wrong, but I think grapes are grafted onto hardier rootstalks, hardy for your area. I know they ideally grow in meditaranian climates, and ones here on the wet coast are grafted to deal with the rain.

OK,that helps ,but where do I get rooting hormone for hardwood? I asked at the local GH and they said they don't sell it,said it was too expensive....

They lie!!!
At least here in Canada, every garden center seems to sell stim-root which has 1, 2, and 3. 1 is for soft, 3 for hard. It is powder.
They are all the same price, around $4.00, for half a lifetimes supply. Although they are on my boycott list, I bet wal-mart has it.
Good luck!

the name is "stim-root"?

It is here anyways, there was another called rootone or something. They are just basic home owner brands, but we used the same ones when working in the greenhouse/nursery, just bigger bottles.

we have rootone,but I have never had any luck with it....
and never seen one that says "for hard wood"

Have not tried this myself-read somewhere that you can use plain aspirin(the cheapest one).Dissolve 2 or 3 aspirin in 1 qt. of water & soak stem cuttings in this for about an hour & then plant .


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I think the aspirin is worth a try, but it does not have IBA which is the chemical that stimulates roots to grow, and since hormones are so cheap I wouldn't waste pills on it.

is there somewhere on line I can buy the hardwood rooting hormone?

OK ,I found "stimroot"
But which one is the hardwood cutting formula,they all just say avaiable in 3 strengths
http://www.quickgrow.com/Nutrients/Rooting_Aid/

CC It's #3 for Hardwood cuttings. It's up to you with powder or gel though. I go through the gel so fast, powder lasts forever! Plus 1/3 the price, can't go wrong.

CC, if your passiflora has new growth on it, now is the time to start new ones. Remember, cut below the 3rd node. I'm also doing potato bush, clerodendron(the ones that have new growth, some are still a bit dormant) and a few other tropicals that are starting to grow in the warm gh. There is a vineyard here that sells concord grapes on "own root" so guess you could try them there. The big Japanese persimmions don't have seeds. I bought Mexican Limas while in Texas, I'm going to try them from seed.
I use the Shultz root starter for everything, it's got IBA and NAA, works on most anything. You can also make the willow tea, there is a recipe in the Botanary section.

I bought the # 3 at charley's greenhouse CC.
http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/catalog/index.cfm?page=_ProductDetails&ProductId=8110

Does anyoone know if Shultz root stimulus liquid that you add to water when watering new plants works well? It just looked to me as if it was a weak fertilizer with a higher phosphorus number. I was thinking of watering my brug cuttings with it to see if it would get them to root faster.
I see some still have vit B6 inthem, which I read years ago did absolutely nothing.

Kell, I think that the high phosphorus fert would be good for fresh rooted cuttings, but not unrooted cuttings.
The brand here is called Plant Prod which I like, but I find a weak 20-20-20 is good for cuttings too and I don't need another bottle of fert here!!!
I learned that one of the B's actually promotes seeds to germinate, but inhibits actual root growth similar to a growth retardent. I think it is B1, the one in many kelp ferts. But I often add a glug to my plants with no problem, actually I sware by my kelp.

kell,that root stuff by Schultz,it works pretty good,alot of stuff I've killed in the past I got to root with that stuff,including some brugs,(my sangs),and tibochina.I did just what DR Cal A Lily said,I take the cutting with a clean razor blade,dip the cutting in straight schultz,and stick them in vermiculite that I watered with diluted schultz.
Like I said ,works great for some stuff I had problems with,but I tried some azalea,rodys and some other stuff and no luck,so I wanna try the #3........
Maybe I should get 1,2,and 3.....
Dennis,you have been very helpful.......

CC, for rhodos, you need bottom heat, and the #3. I haven't had any success. I do know though, that they tend to make so much callus that the cutting dies, unable to get roots through the callus, so what you need to do is on either side of the cutting, scrape a bit of bark off. About an inch, and not all the way around, not even half, but nearly half. I wish I could draw a pic on here.
If this makes no sense let me know.

You mean wound the side of it?

I've tried crushing the bottom 1/2 to inch of the stems of hard to root plants and then rooting them in water. They also callous big time, but do go ahead and root. Might just be another method to use.

There is a local nursery(well, maybe 60 miles from here) that we buy rhodies and azaleas from. That's about all they grow. I'll ask them when I see him at the trade show. He's nice and will probably tell me. I know we used to grow azaleas at a gh I worked at and we took new growth, probably in June and it all rooted on a heated mist bench with just rootone.

OK,I went a head and bought "Stim Root" 1,2 and 3

Can I take cuttings now?
I have a barlett pear tree and a reliance peach,can they be rooted from cuttings?
How about rodys,or magnolias?

Fruit trees 'I think' can be rooted as hard wood cuttings (#3 powder), but look it up first. Most fruit trees need a root stalk because normally they are very weak to disease/elements.

Thank's Dennis for answering my question before I asked it!! I'm off to get some now.

"eyes"

Year round is a good time to propagate fig cuttings, inside mostly now, but if you have a green house, should be starting them now for spring...

you can always use the natural method for rooting hormone...cut a few branches off a willow tree, boil them in water, let it sit over night and dip your cuttings in that....

Just my two cents

Hey there Rich, another plant lover from MD! Yep, he's an authority on Figs! Gee, wonder how you learned all about them Figs! :~)

Willow water is an excellent rooting substance, which is easily made and doesn't cost a lot of $$$$.

C.C. - I would definitely check the Propagation section in the F.A.Q. forum. Lots of valuable information. Here is the answer to your question, on rooting azaleas or rhodos. http://davesgarden.com/t/6570/

But did Dave's cuttings root?
And why do they go in the fridge?

they are already in the cold and dormant