Can you start a new tree from a cutting?
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Comments (6)If it's laying on the ground, maybe you could pile some wood shavings or sawdust over some small limbs and let it root while attached to the tree. Keep it moist. May need to wound the limbs and dust on some rooting hormone. I know that to make rootstock people will plant seedlings and heap sawdust around the base to cause "stooling"...when rooted those suckers are severed from the parent tree and bench grafted to make new trees for orchard plantings. If I were you, and knew anyone who could graft, I would get them to graft some on an existing apple tree to prevent the loss of this old variety....See MoreHow do you root peach and/or willow trees from cuttings?
Comments (8)Peach are very hard from cuttings, but willow is a dead cinch. Take dormant cuttings in late winter or early spring and they will root easily . Works well with the old "stick in ground under fruit jar" method. Black Haw (Viburnum prunifolium) is common over most of Eastern US, even up here in PA. Clean off the pulp and soak in warm water overnight. plant about 1" deep outside and most will sprout next spring. These also root sucker a lot, and these can be divided off for new plants. Burr Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) acorns should be planted about 3" deep outside also. I'm a native Okie, born and raised there, but have been up here in PA for 35 years. Hope you have luck with these. George...See Morehow to start a tree when there are no suckers from original tree
Comments (5)Actually, flowering crabs take very easily from cuttings and softwood cuttings taken now are ideal. 1)Fill a 6-inch plastic container with a mix of equal measures peat and coarse sand. Soak the peat in water before mixing it with the sand. 2)Gather a 5- to 7-inch-long tip cutting with several sets of young leaves on the tip and a pliant stem. Cut the stem 1/4 inch below a set of leaves with bypass shears. (best to take mulitple cuttings to ensure at least a few will 'take' and produce roots) 3)Strip off the mature leaves along the lower one-third of the crabapple cutting. Coat this lower area of the stem with 0.8-percent IBA (indolebutyric acid) rooting hormone. 4)Stick the hormone-coated end of the crabapple cutting into the prepared container. Press it in until the lowest set of leaves rests on the surface of the growing mixture. Firm the mixture around the base of the cutting. 5)Place the potted crabapple cutting outdoors in a sheltered area with filtered light. Protect it from wind and direct sun to prevent the leaves from drying out. 6)Drizzle water onto the growing mixture just around the base of the cutting. Maintain constant moisture in the peat mixture, but allow it to become nearly dry just below the surface. 7)Provide intermittent mist with an automated system or by spritzing the cutting two or three times a day with a spray bottle. Make sure to mist the undersides of the leaves, if you're using a spray bottle. 8)Gently tug on the crabapple cutting in four to six weeks to check for roots. Feel if the cutting sticks to the growing medium rather than moving freely when you pull it. 9)Leave the rooted crabapple cutting in partial shade for the remainder of summer. Transplant it into a sunny bed with well-draining soil in early fall, around mid-October....See MoreStarted fig trees from cuttings -- but they die when I move them!
Comments (4)Even if you got most of the thick roots the thin roots are lost, those are the ones that actually absorb water. I would have been much better if you waited a little bit longer actually and moved them when they were dormant, because the leaves draw more water than the disturbed roots can provide. The soft green stems and leaves are used to getting much more water so they are wilting. I would go ahead and clip all the leaves and hope for the best. Maybe you could leave a few at the top and see if the trees can handle keeping them happy. Leaving them all on you risk the whole plant drying out, the tree wants to drop those leaves but it takes time and it might dry out first. That is probably why the others died....See Morequirkyquercus
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