"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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"Pavel314" wrote in message
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My wife just bought a plant cloner, which looks like a picnic cooler with
a
clear top. You place cuttings in a holder so that they're suspended in
mid
air over the tank. Grow lights above and below a pump continuously sprays
an
aerated nutrient enzyme broth on the bottom half of the cuttings, which
encourages them to root.

I'd like to use this on some cuttings from my vineyard and the quince
tree.
(We're still debating the wisdom of propagating the medlar.) My question
to
the group is whether or not the grapes and quinces need to go dormant for
a
while before putting them into the cloner.

We've had a late summer here in Maryland, U.S.A., and all of the trees
and
vines are still fully leafed. I have enough stock to try cuttings without
giving them a winter's rest but wonder which approach would work better.


Paul




Is your quince grafted? Are you aiming at propagating the root stock or
the
graft tissue? What will you do with the clone assuming that it roots and
grows?

David

I don't know for sure if the quince is grafted or not; my wife planted it
here about 15 years before I met her. She thinks it is un-grafted, though.

I plan to porpagate cuttings taken from the branches of the trees or vines,
not the root stock.

If they root and grow, I'll pot them in potting soil and eventually put them
out in the orchard or vineyard.

Paul