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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