My neighbor has a Dissectum that he'll let me get cuttings from (no air layers sadly), and I was wondering if its possible to propagate them from cuttings? I've been searching the web for quite a while now and sometimes I'll come across someone saying you can, then others saying its not possible, and I'm very confused if its even worth trying? Any insight would be appreciated
Dissectum Cuttings
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cbroad
Omono
I've always heard it's very difficult... maybe some others here have had success.
I just looked through Dirr and he said soft wood cuttings taken in July, 6 to 8" lengths (smaller on less vigorous cultivars), wounding, apply high IBA (10000 to 20000 ppm), placing in peat/perlite under mist; roots only developed from wounded areas, rooting took 2 months. He doesn't differentiate between palmatums and dissectums though... he also references 'The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation' for more detailed information.
Good luck!
I just looked through Dirr and he said soft wood cuttings taken in July, 6 to 8" lengths (smaller on less vigorous cultivars), wounding, apply high IBA (10000 to 20000 ppm), placing in peat/perlite under mist; roots only developed from wounded areas, rooting took 2 months. He doesn't differentiate between palmatums and dissectums though... he also references 'The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation' for more detailed information.
Good luck!
discusmike
Omono
One of the green varieties will, seiryou,not sure if I spelled that correctly,they grow upright but don't trunk up slow,fall color is a spectacular
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
I have a buddy that has a green maple with super short internodes in his yard.
He doesn't know much about it, but I've got the OK to take cuttings this year as well.
Haven't had good success with cuttings...
He doesn't know much about it, but I've got the OK to take cuttings this year as well.
Haven't had good success with cuttings...
Dav4
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The only dissectum I've ever heard of being regularly struck from cuttings is A. p. 'seiryu'. The rest are either extremely difficult or impossible to strike.
MACH5
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+1 ^^^
My understanding is that they are even difficult to air layer. No experience in that regard with dissectums so going by what I hear. I have two growing on their own roots. Perhaps maple master Bill Valavanis will chime in here to shed some light on the subject.
My understanding is that they are even difficult to air layer. No experience in that regard with dissectums so going by what I hear. I have two growing on their own roots. Perhaps maple master Bill Valavanis will chime in here to shed some light on the subject.
JoeR
Masterpiece
I have two green dissectums from cuttings that I recently purchased, acer palmatum 'Viridis'. So some must be able to be propagated via cuttings.
sorce
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AlainK
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I read an article translated from Japanese in which a nursery man combined grafting and air-layering to reproduce cultivars difficult to take cuttings from:
He would graft the dissectum variety on plain stock, then put a wire around the part where the graft wade made, fill up the pot above the graft with soil and wait for new roots to show where the wire had been put. I've never tried it myself though. And I have so many bonsai magazines that are not really arranged by dates that it would take too long to find the pictures again...
He would graft the dissectum variety on plain stock, then put a wire around the part where the graft wade made, fill up the pot above the graft with soil and wait for new roots to show where the wire had been put. I've never tried it myself though. And I have so many bonsai magazines that are not really arranged by dates that it would take too long to find the pictures again...
Dalmat
Shohin
Even if you succeed I think they don't respond well on bonsai techniques.
AlainK
Imperial Masterpiece
You must be right: has anyone seen any top-of-the shelf dissectum bonsai?...
William N. Valavanis
Chumono
Although you might find some Dissectum maples on their own roots, they may not be as vigorous or long lived as grafted specimens. In the past I've had pretty good luck rooting different Dissectum cultivars, BUT they failed to grow and develop. Easier to carefully select grafted material like this one of mine.
Bill
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AlainK
Imperial Masterpiece
OK, there's at least one!
The graft is (almost) invisible because it's very low on the trunk. Was it a choice or not, the stock also has a vigour and a texture/colour that makes the whole picture very coherent, but: how many starter trees can an "amateur" find that have such qualities?...
discusmike
Omono
Maybe try to airlayer right under graft? That's would I would probably try,the chances of finding a good graft are nil,I do have a uptight dissecting growing on it's own roots around my koi pond,it's grown taller over the years but has never trunked up like the species
