Wintersweet propagation: cutting and seedlings
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propagate fruit trees from cuttings?? not grafts
Comments (25)For the ultimate in geekiness for propagating from cuttings, the cutting edge (no pun intended) is tissue culture, growing plants out from meristem cuttings in sterile laboratory conditions. Because you're taking the cutting from the tip of the plant growth, any virus or disease has not had time to travel to that part of the plant yet, and you get a clean start. It used to be the domain of laboratories only, requiring laminar flow hoods and autoclaves, meaning growers had to send out their mother plants for propagation. But guess the one industry that doesn't want to send out their mother plants? That's right, the pot industry! So industrious (and stoned) minds spurred on the development of plant preservatives that help make up for the non-laboratory conditions and now home tissue culture kits are widely available. The plantlets are started in a gelatin-type medium with plant food,hormones, and sugars. Since this medium grows bacteria and fungus much better than it does plants, everything still has to be sterile with lots of alcohol and bunsen burners; a pressure cooker sterilizes your tools. A rubbermaid tub serves as your clean hood and baby food jars holds the medium. Since the sugar is feeding the plants, low light is needed as opposed to the high light needed for hydroponics. It is a way to propagate clean plants quickly, especially on difficult to propagate plants like blueberry and orchids. WSU has been investigating tissue culture of the G series rootstocks since they do not root well in the layer bed. You'd still have to graft to appropriate rootstock, but it would be a way to cheaply clean up viruses in both. Kits run about $250. Here is a link that might be useful: Home Tissue Culture Group...See MoreWintersweet ( La- Mei) Starts to Bloom
Comments (60)It's unlikely to be hardy in zone 5, but might be possible if you have a very warm spot, up against the South side of the house facing the sun, protected from wind, and you live in the warmer part of zone 5. Also keep in mind this blooms during the Winter, so the blooms are likely to freeze off if it gets extremely cold. If it's growing in a container, you should definitely bring them inside. Plants growing in containers are usually less hardy because the soil and roots are more exposed to the surrounding cold....See MoreGermination/propagation of seedlings
Comments (49)geeze,, you'll have me beat big time, hubs has his sony, i think he paid 13oo for it, tabor has his apple k12 let him borrow, and i have my no good hp that i messed up. i guess zack said it won't reboot because of the hardware problem, hubs and i are thinking its the hardrive, and i remember that ever since i let talla watch that dang high school musical over the summer once in it, the hard drive would just keep going and going, some how she didn't shut it down right when she left, and it was going when i came in, and it was hotter than heck. and here i thought it was because of avast and it eating my files. if that turnes out to be the problem hubs has a hp that is a different make, but the hard drive is still awesome but the problem with his was that the lcd screen just quite working, so we decided that when i buy my next one, it has to be something pretty indestructible, as i have this shocking ability and this if it can be ruined, medo can do it!! LOL my mom let me have a pc of hers ( laptop) and she told me, you can't ruin it, well somehow, i did ruin it, i was diong something, and all of a sudden tha dang thing went black and NEVER ran again!! i totally fried it, so hubs took it in, and the guy told hubs that all that pc is good for now is a paper weight, LOL think that's the end of my accidental destruction? ya, HEEE HEEEE LOL we got this nice tv, i was washing the screen, and danged if some spray didn't get into the speaker part, guess what? it never worked again. hubs was very mad!! then it was this really cool stereo my mom gave me, could go really louod!!! OHHHH MAN!! so i'd clean the house and turn it up!! well i was moving the living room around, and plugged some stuff in, and pfizzzz i blew a circuit, the guy said, gues what? its no good, this is too old of a model. dang!!! nope, it do't end there!!! i fried another tv, don't really recal how on that one, just really remember hubs saying what the h*** did ya do now?? so when i move stuff around he freaks!! now the breaking has passed onto my daughter, and hubs ruining things has passed onto tabor, LOL talla busts all my cups and dishes, except when i somehow, i think i twitched and droped the top of the broiler pan and 3 plates on the top of my feet, OUCH!!! i actually thought i broke my feet, but i didn't, they just bruised, that was the only time i broke anything in years. LOL and i haven't ruined anything since, excluding that dang hp!! Man!! yes, i'm long winded tonight, its been 2 hyper yelling kids all day!! **sigh** ~Medo...See MorePropagating apple tree from root cuttings?
Comments (3)Most trees root best with cuttings taken in spring just before sprouting, but there are exceptions. Like grapes, apples root better in winter. In fact, I have often had cuttings from winter pruning that fell to the ground and the cut end in the soil, missed when picking up after that rooted. They were 2-3' long. I have two bonsai apples 16 years old that started that way. In our wet climate, they are kept wet enough to make it through winter and sprout in spring, but you might have to keep them watered. Rooting hormone will increase your chances of success. If you are working on root stock for an orchard, I hope you are young!...See Moreforever_a_newbie_VA8
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