Cherry tree propagation - plus a bonus plum!

[Cria]

My friend is a certified city pruner in NYC so he helps maintain the street trees.
I lent him a hand today and got several branches of some Prunus Serrulata plus a couple Purple Leaf Plum snipets for my trouble!


Trying to propagate several cuttings off them of various sizes, will see what (if anything) takes!





Ideas, advice, admonishments on this venture always welcome!

 

[gooeytek]

A friend of mine grabbed some yoshino and kwanzan clippings from flowering cherries that were pruned out in Greenport, NY during their cherry blossom festival, and they all took root quite easily.

 

[Cria]

A friend of mine grabbed some yoshino and kwanzan clippings from flowering cherries that were pruned out in Greenport, NY during their cherry blossom festival, and they all took root quite easily.

Thanks, that's really encouraging!

I experimented with the cuttings I took - for some I left more leaves or less leaves on them and then some I left uncovered and mist twice daily versus others I covered in a plastic bag to keep humid. The ones doing best are the ones with fewer leaves and bagged.

 

[gooeytek]

Thanks, that's really encouraging!

I experimented with the cuttings I took - for some I left more leaves or less leaves on them and then some I left uncovered and mist twice daily versus others I covered in a plastic bag to keep humid. The ones doing best are the ones with fewer leaves and bagged.

She cut them down to about 8 inches, left 1 or 2 leaves on each one, dusted the ground end with rooting powder, and stuck them all in one of those plastic raised beds from Aldi that she filled with a half bag of miracle-gro raised bed soil and a big bag of perlite.
Covered it with the included translucent dome cover, and left it on her back deck that gets a lot of sun.
She said the soil medium remained quite moist since it was kept covered, and she just had to mist them heavily every couple of days
They all had plenty of roots after about 2 months.