help withrooting hardwood cuttings?
I asked this question last year, I thought I had saved the answers,
but I have lost them, and anyway the circumstances have changed a
little.
I have an alder tree, which I want to take cuttings from. As I
remember it, the advice is:-
* Cut the branch, I have up to 2 ft available, and I want to grow the
cuttings into big trees, quickly, or is this biting off more than I
can chew?
* Put some hormone rooting powder on and around the cut end. (I am
really not sure what I was advised on this point)
* Put a spade into the earth, rock it back and forth, to create a
slit.
* Drop sand into the slit.
* Push the cut end of the cutting into the sand.
* Stamp on the earth around the slit to close the slit. (There won't
be any problem with this after this rain!)
* Leave it to grow.
Is this OK?
Michael Bell
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