Cherry cuttings

[doc spring _work]

I just want to second @leatherback and recommend Dirr's book,

the experimenting and research has been carried out, and if youre serious about propagation that book is the best resource available,

Ill definitely look at getting it. Can't ignore the recommendation of three people. Thank you all!

There would be so much broken crap in my pockets after hearing that.
I have plum cuttings taken in fall that I am still cheering on, I fully expect them to pop open, even though it would be like rooting cherries... and I do the same thing every year.

He particularly mentioned that many good trees are probably gonna break in the summer (crazy wind as we are in a valley between two mountains) I've checked the fallen trees and picked several up with no luck yet... Still hoping a tree a really want will take a plunge as he even said a whole tree breaking makes it up for grabs

 

[The Barber]

Made some early winter plum cuttings that did well till I went on vacation in February and my mother in law let them dry out, luckily 2 of them survived, just pulled the plugs and up-potted them. I tend to just use seed propagation trays for my cuttings and they do fine, I just do a mix of vermiculite, peat and perilite and keep them moist.

 

[doc spring _work]

Made some early winter plum cuttings that did well till I went on vacation in February and my mother in law let them dry out, luckily 2 of them survived, just pulled the plugs and up-potted them. I tend to just use seed propagation trays for my cuttings and they do fine, I just do a mix of vermiculite, peat and perilite and keep them moist.


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Hmm my mix is only peat and perlite perhaps a bit of vermiculite might help... Ill have to look that up a bit more

 

[doc spring _work]

Cuttings outside where successful for sometime but did eventually die out >.> I have since upgraded my cutting set up with small Tupperware containers, may try again next year

 

[RoadManDenDron]

Post pics we may be able to figure out why they didn't make it

 

[doc spring _work]

Post pics we may be able to figure out why they didn't make it

I'll be honest, I forgot about the thread when they slowly faded. I was going through bookmarks and thought I should update

I do know they dried out, my environment is EXTREMELY dry, Ive started using Tupperware to artificially create humidity, they did develop some fine roots,

They just couldn't hold up with the low humidity + the heat they just couldn't get enough water.

 

[doc spring _work]

I will go collect more come winter from the orchard. Will also collect from the nursery (work) during our bareroot season we have plenty of cutting materials to work with. Will keep updated on that project

 

[TrevorLarsen]

Did any of them actually grow roots? Cuttings can survive for a while on stored energy.

 

[doc spring _work]

Did any of them actually grow roots? Cuttings can survive for a while on stored energy.

Not enough roots to recover from the full body dry out, about three where promising and I kept trying to keep them up but they were long gone approx 10 little hairs On most of them

 

[Dabbler]

nothing to do but learn! I may try this too as I really want to add cherry to my collection!

 

[doc spring _work]

Just to test my propagation ability I've taken some Hawthorne cuttings and about a week 1/2 later im seeing some fantastic bud swelling.

If these take ill certainly see if I can't replicate the success with some winter cutting cherries! If those fail again I'll know that the timing is my primary problem

 

[leatherback]

Thread 'Hawthorn cuttings'

May 11, 2019

Collected some hawthorn and crabapple cuttings today while at clients. Curious what people’s success rates have been with Haw cuttings.

• Jzack605
• Replies: 13
• Forum: General Discussion

If those fail again I'll know that the timing is my primary problem

Or you are trying to root species that are known to be hard to propagate by cutting.
This is not something that needs an experiment. It is known how to propagate all these species, as nurseries have been perfecting the methods and there is a wealth of scientific studies on how and when to root them.

 

[gschup]

what species do you have there?
Cherry is not know for rooting well from cuttings, afaik.

Is that so? I just started this year and and wanted to try some softwood cuttings. In early summer, I cut a few twigs off of landscape flowering cherry trees and they rooted and grew quite vigorously for me. I must have gotten really lucky!

This is one of the cuttings a few days ago, the original leaves are not even visible under all the new growth

 

[doc spring _work]

I'm aware cherries are tough to grow from cutting, after working in the nursery business for 7 months and discussing it with the owner I refined my strategy, which im currently seeing if it works with my current cheap set up or if I need to invest in better containers... Which would give other benefits such as deeper more stable soil etc..

Most cuttings in my area fail, this is a factor of where I live. It sucks but it is what it is. If I want cuttings in my extremely bipolar climate I can't just throw sticks into some soil with rooting hormone...

I need to create a controlled environment with plenty of humidity. (My current method of this is cheap Tupperware containers, but they do seem to leak off too quickly so I may need to invest in better containers- the nursery recommended a glass terrarium)

Hadn't realized Hawthorne was difficult, there's just a large overgrown Hawthorne tree across the street I've been cleaning up, decided I'd try to throw them in the bin since my cutting box was empty at the moment, I had recently successfully got a rose through the new box method and just recently transferred the successful cutting, honest mistake there