Then the best thing you can do is hurry and stick it. You lose nothing by trying, and I would not be surprised if it would root.

If it broke at an intersection, and you got a 'heel' on your cutting, very good. Don't cut it off. Trim the cutting from the top, leaving a couple of nodes to stick in the medium, and a couple of nodes above the surface. Leave a couple of leaves on. Make sure the medium is moist, and don't let it dry out, not even once.

If it broke in the middle of a limb, trim it to about 1/4" below a node of semi ripe wood. That would be where the limb is more wood like, as opposed to the green, limber stuff at the tip of the branch.

In either case, dip the bottom nodes in some rooting hormone, make a hole in the moist medium, stick the cutting in up past the second node, and pull the medium up around the cutting nice and snug. Water to settle soil, and get the air out. Set it in a shady spot, maybe in the drip line of your house or a shed. That way, condensation will drip from the roof, and keep it nicely watered.

In any case, good luck! Ane let us know what happens.

Janie

Thanks Janie, I'll try it. Hubby stuck it in a vase of water, lol. I will try and take a couple from the one long limb. I will have to do it in a pot. We haven't had any rain here in 3 months other than one shower about 2 weeks ago. I broke a small limb out of my cherry tree today. I will try and root it too.

Sticking it in a vase of water serves to keep it from drying out until you can put it in some kind of rooting medium. I don't think it will root in water though.

I am sticking button bush this morning, and a magilla perilla that broke off. I can't stand to just throw them away.

~Janie

I didn't think so either. I have made lots of cuttings with smaller pieces of things but not thicker limbs like that but I'll give it a shot.