Rooting Hosta from leaf cutting
chaman
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Leaf Cuttings: roots but no leaves
Comments (13)I realize this is an old thread but wanted to give my 2 cents. When I started to grow my AV NOIDs last year I started 2 dome containers. One I used root start with half of the leaves cut at the top and the other half I used full leaves. The other dome lid I didn't use rooting hormone with the same half cut the top of the leaves and half uncut. Each box grew and the half leaves grew faster. They didn't live to produce other babies after the harvest but the whole leaves did. My unscientific experiment results are that hormone didn't help but half leaves did if you want faster results but risk only one set of babies. :) Just one experiment maybe I will do another and take pics to document. I need to get some leaves to do it. Oh and one other strange thing I noticed...the ruffly (girl) leaves survived better! Strange huh!...See MoreHosta Cut Leaf Show
Comments (3)It was a great show - about 600 leaves were entered. The Best in Show leaf was "Dawn's Early Light", a medium-sized yellow-ish one I had not seen before. The sale looked like it was pretty good and well-attended, lots of beautiful hostas, perennials, Japanese Maples, bog plants & ferns out there. There should be some pictures and a report at the website soon, apparently....See MorePost from Plant Propagation Forum about rooting leaves?
Comments (10)simple pickup a bunch of celery at the grocer ... and look at it ... the CORE ... would be akin to the crown ... so instead of snapping off a celery stalk ... you would cut down and take a piece of the core with the stalk.. which in a hosta is called a petiole ... but i still dont know why you would need to massacre a whole plant.. to get 100 divisions ... when most of us would simply divide it in half.. or quarters .. and be more than happy with a few more plants ... i just dont understand the need for mass reproduction on the scale this process dictates ... that.. and its going to be 3 to 4 years.. before you end up with much of anything the size of a normal plant ... if you are lucky.. next year.. you will probably have the typical 2 to 4 inch TC sized plant.. that will need extreme TLC .... except for the 'experimenting' part of course ... there is never a down side to that ... i did it.. you may as well try .... i am just trying to set your expectations where they should be .. not some pipe dream.. that next year.. you are going to have multiplied momma as to size ... if you have one plant.. and you want 4.. simply dig it up.. wash it off.. and separate the eyes.. and make a few cuts [if you can not simply pull them apart ..... and cut it into 4 parts.. ibso presto.. 4 plants... WITH ROOTS .. and most likely.. near the size of what you started with .... BTW .. if you do the crown division ... something like ROOTONE will help.. not so much as for the rooting hormone.. but for the fungicide [make sure you buy the right one] .... if you cut into the crown.. odds are high.. that it will rot ... if fact.. if you arent already guessing at my predilection .. just go to the link.. and do it that way.. and skip this nonsense.. unless its just about the 'experimenting' .... whatever you do.. just have fun .... ken Here is a link that might be useful: are you aware of this.. and why not do it this way???...See MoreNeed help with rooting Purple Leaf Sand Cherry cuttings
Comments (15)So these cuts on either side of the node are made lengthwise for roots to be able to come out, correct? How deep should these cuts be made? Just cut down into the cambium layer - 1mm It also looks like you didn't remove the blossoms, is that okay? I thought removing the blossoms helps the cutting take root as most of its energy will go into rooting. Is that the case? Maybe it is different with the purple leaf sand cherry though. No, you're right, in fact I should go do that now - I left a few in the hustle of getting this all done quickly. Also, your cuttings appear to be about 5-6 inches tall when ready to be placed in the rooting medium. Is that correct? yup Would I be safe using sphagnum moss as well? I can purchase either perlite or sphagnum moss, just wondering which to get. Perlite will come in handy with potting soil as well though, so I may go with perlite, like you did. I find that its a whole lot easier to control the moisture level in perlite - as long as there is some sort of lid on it, it stays damp for weeks, wicks up moisture from the bottom as needed, but doesn't turn into a soggy mess. Lets air get down to the roots as well. I just find that much harder to manage with the moss and my cuttings rot far more easily. If I use a clear plastic bag, would that work too? I guess the downside of a plastic bag is that I'd need to have some fixture inside that keeps it from touching the leaves though. Sure, just put in some sticks to hold the bag up. Also, do you think I should get a different rooting hormone, or is my STIM-ROOT No. 1 rooting hormone (a pink powder) good enough? I'm sure that what you have is fine - its all the same active ingredient. Another few comments - if the leaves fall off, discard and start over. - when you start to see new top growth, thats a sign that things are going well. That should be at 4 to 6 weeks. - When you see that, its time to start taking off the plastic cover. Be careful - the environment is so humid under the plastic that the leaves adapt. If your ambient, room humidity is much drier, then when they're exposed, they'll wilt in a few hours. Needs a bit of TLC - remove for an hour, replace, next day two hours, etc. You may not need to worry about this, but I live in a desert, so its a major concern..... I live on the corner of two busy roads, so I've planted a sound/visual barrier with pine and ash trees, and under those, I have lots of shrubs, including a dozen or so sand cherry growing in the partial shade. I'd love to have more of them, but at this point, when I plant small things out, the trees pretty much steal all the sun, water, and nutrients........See Moregrumpygardenguy
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