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cuttings report on spruce, locust, maple
Last Spring I wrote that I had bought some plant hormone growth compound
and had made 20 cuttings of bluespruce, 20 of honeylocust and 20 of Norway Maple. When I was a teenager I was around the making of cuttings of Taxus species (yew trees) which seem to be much easier to do than bluespruce, honeylocust and maple. Anyway the Norway Maple 20 soon died last summer and the 20 honeylocust followed. Death is when I cannot see any green on stem or other parts. And 10 of the bluespruce died. So I have left 10 bluespruce which promises to live. I do not know where the major mistakes were but these are some likely causes: 1) some species just are not amenable to cuttings 2) my environment was not ideal as the yew cuttings some 40 years ago where inside a greenhouse and sterile perilite instead of soil that is vulnerable to diseases. I remember the wind was bad one day and cuttings have a tough time if every moved before taking root 3) sterile soil to start and also watering of water that is not laden with harmful organisms P.S. If a few of the bluespruce survive then I will be happy because then I will make cuttings of my favorite trees of form and shape such as the "fastigiata" cultivar. And of the "blue-shiners" of their intense blue. Archimedes Plutonium www.archimedesplutonium.com www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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