enigma ) writes:

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/fn...s.cuttings.pdf

apparently butternut cuttings may root, but not in a bucket of
water.
it looks like you'll need rooting hormone (willow water should
work), plant in moist sterile medium under a mist tent.

thanks fro the information

are you sure your cuttings are canker free?

from what I've read the spores are carried down the tree by runoff. If you
go out when the sap is just starting to run, snow still on the ground, no
leaves or bud activity, you can see where the black sap oozes out of the
limbs. Not difficult to avoid infected limbs then. Actaully a goo dtime to
prune infected areas. Later when the tree dries out it's hard to tell
where the cancers are.

lee


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