Amatuer attempt to root Tsuga Canadensis cuttings. Help!
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Comments (29)Barbara, Thanks for the vote of confidence! I do not recommend causing anymore injury/open wounds on the basil end and/or stem of the cuttings as this is an avenue for infectious diseases to enter the stem tissue. Always use very sharp pruning clippers when taking the cuttings. Sterilize these clippers also. A clean cut leaves no ragged tissue upon which disease can enter the cuttings. The chemical rooting compounds generally do contain a fungicide. I prefer liquid rooting compounds which normally require soaking the basil end of the cuttings for a given period of time. There are different strengths/concentrations of these compounds depending upon whether you are propagating herbaceous or the many stages of woody materials. Powdered rooting compounds tend to excessively clump on the basil end of the cutting which burns the tissue and disease sets in which can contaminate your other cuttings in the propagation media. Follow the instructions on the label. When collecting cuttings, do not let the basil end of the cuttings become contaminated. Think clean from beginning to end. For those of you who want the no nonsense advice, use my e-mail address above....See MoreFloat test on Tsuga seeds
Comments (17)I think we can close this one up. Do Not discard the floaters! Stratify them all! These seeds were cold stratified for only ~35 days in the fridge. This baggie was taken out of the fridge and has been sitting on the bench in my workshop for a month, 65-75 d F ambient temps. There has been no mold and there's been minimal moister in the bag. I'd say just moist enough. Now the seeds are sprouting like a kettle full of pop corn. I opened the baggie to moisten the paper towel, thought I saw another radicle. So I started digging through the seeds which were laid on quite thickly. Found 9 more and some were penetrating into the paper towel already. I never noticed the little red tip on the radicle before. Not wanting to just throw these, I packed a pot with a mix of leftover soils I have here and planted these 9, very shallow in a top coating of coir mix....See MoreAnyone else growing Tsuga canadensis in usda zone 3?
Comments (152)I was thinking of getting a weeping white spruce (picea glauca) to put in the place of the hemlock but after seeing what they cost, it was hard to convince DW to fork out another $300-500 to get one of any size and I'm not patient enough to start with a very small one. My next thought was picea abies would look nice there but for some reason, nobody seemed to carry the smaller potted trees anymore around my area. All types of spruces were high priced and seemed to be hard to find this year, for some reason. Finally, I found a tree grower who was gracious enough to sell me a potted P. Abies from his stock he'll be planting soon. I waited over an hour at his fields while he tended to customers, but it was worth the wait. I was expecting a seedling in a half gallon pot, but was happy to see it was a 30" tree in a 3 gal. pot. :-) He explained to me how to slit the sides of the root ball before planting, which I did but when I tried to find the root flare, the red flags went off. I took off over 1-1/2" of extra soil from the top layer in the pot before finding the root flare. In turn found a couple of good-sized roots growing up from the top of the root flare and were circling around the trunk area in that top layer of soil. (You can see the white spots of the snipped roots just right of trunk (next pic) and the soil line (dark part of trunk) where the original soil line was in the pot). I've read that P. Abies isn't as fussy as most trees are about getting planted too deep but didn't want to take chances and circling roots are never a good idea to leave without fixing. So anyways, got the P. Abies species tree planted, and it shouldn't be long for it to start looking nice. The buds were just breaking when I was planting today. 77df. When clearing the old mulch for planting, I found at least 3" deep of composted wood mulch under the top layer of mulch, I suppose from the last 7 years of applying mulch around the hemlock. Now you know 'The rest of the story'. ;-)...See MoreIs propagating tsugas from cuttings difficult?
Comments (19)My setup last year was: Media: 70% perlite / 30% peat Rooting hormone: Dip 'n grow 5x dilution (.2% IBA, .1% NAA) Bottom heat: Thermostat set at 70 deg F Light: cheap amazon led grow light, "75W" full spectrum (I believe actual power draw is about 32W) Air temp: 60-65 deg F (basement) Tray: Rootmaker 32-cell trays with a clear dome over top + periodic treatment with consan 20 to control mold and fungus I found the media to dry out really fast with this setup. I had about a 50% success rate at the 20-week mark. This year I am growing in clear totes with sealing lids to completely enclose the entire setup. It has not dried out, actually may be on the wet side. I also moved the setup to a cooler environment in an unconditioned space under my porch where the temp ranges from 35 - 45 deg F in the winter. The heat mat area is about 55 deg. This year's setup: Ryan...See MoreUser
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