wrote:
I can see a direction in the technology of botany towards the
elimination of grafting. How much easier
and less time consuming to make a cutting propagation rather than to
make a graft.

I think with the constant steady improvement of hormonal-acid that
cuttings could reach a point where
they surpass all grafting applications. So that in the future, to
graft is a waste of time and money.

I have used Schultz "Take Root" powder and achieved a 7 out of 28 rock-
elm success rate. So that
is 25% success on powder hormone. I have recently bought gel of a
higher concentration of hormone
acid and will see the success rate on it.

One thing of note is that where I keep the cuttings is usually about
80 degree fahrenheit
but on many occasions can reach a 100 degree fahrenheit temperature
but it seems to be beneficial. Somehow the hot temperature works in
favor.


I am glad I put laurel-willow cuttings alongside rock-elm; give me
guidance and prompting.
Five laurel-willow sent out some leaves and two rock-elm did the same,
only the willow
took half the time.

Today I made ready potting soil for I was transplanting those seven
cuttings with leaves.
Come to find out that all five laurel-willow had numerous white roots
attached. Come
to find out that neither of the two rock-elm had roots attached.
Perhaps they were so fine that
I missed seeing them? I presume they were not rooted at all, but that
the stem had enough
reserved energy to send a bud out to green leaf. I have seen this
reaction on many tree trunks
that I have sawed down such as popular and oak where the trunk has
enough energy to
sent out buds and leaves even though it no longer has a root system.
So I am back to square
one with rock-elm, hoping to get one or two cuttings rooted out of
approx 50.

I placed the two rock-elm into the potting soil after rebathing the
end in a hormone-gel.

Back to square one where rock-elm is tough to make cuttings.

I think that if a species is easy enough to propagate via cuttings
that the species is not in
danger of going extinct.

Archimedes Plutonium
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