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Rooting conifer cuttings (Practice)
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 MoreRoot rot in jade plant I think--also is this giant thing a root?!
Comments (49)I found an absolutely beautiful Jade in a dumpster when I was tossing my trash. I pulled it out and after trimming a bit it was absolutely fantastic. I proceeded to over water it and practically kill it. It got so bad that I thought it was a goner...and then I did the unthinkable. I cut off the entire matted and ruined root ball. The whole thing. I let it air a few days and stuck it in an awful mixture of street dirt. 6-months later, it is making a huge comeback. I barely water it now and give it a shower every six weeks or so to blow away any mites or whatever crawlies happen on it. It is doing fine. I happened on another specimen with an 8-inch trunk and I broke it up to make about 5 new plants with 4-inch trunks (the 8-inch was rotting). I'm hoping to get at least 3 of those rooted using the same method. Re-rooting a 4-inch trunk gave me some confidence with Jades. They seem to be really resilient if you sorta be a little mean to them ;-)...See MoreRooting Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis).
Comments (50)Update: June 17th, woke up to heavy, pouring rain in the night, wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't came down at a 45d angle perfectly from the NE. Found the covering on my totes compromised. They were in a corner, up against the north side of the house and east side of cement front steps with a 2 foot overhang on the single story roof and a 6 ft. tall, fully branched/leafed sand cherry shrub protecting them on the North side. Nice bright area with a little evening sunset hitting the north wall of the house just above the totes. So there I was at @ 2:00 in the morning putting things back to normal. The pail with the Thuja was half full of water. Brought things into the garage. The cups were floating around at different angles with media mostly outside the cups. Checked for roots and found no sign of anything happening there so decided to discard the Thuja so that is finished. Tsuga wasn't hit as hard, water was plenty high and a few of the cups partially tipped. They were tighter grouped and only one or two had the media partially disturbed. All of them were thoroughly soaked from the rain. The Tsuga looked reasonably good, some have a few dead needles but there are a few, if not several, that are entirely green and some of them show what appears to be a small amount of new growth along the stem and branch tips. I can see no signs of mold or fungus. There is some algae evident but I assume this is because of the small amount of diffused sunlight the tote receives now that it is outside? We'll know more in another month or so. I don't plan to do anything with them until at least the first week in August. Picture of what things looked like before the storm: We (almost) never get rain at that angle. I had rubber binders around the top, holding the plastic on but the rain came so hard and fast that it stretched the plastic downward and filled up the sag in the plastic until it was so heavy that it pulled the plastic out from the binders allowing the water to pour in. Murphy's law?...See MoreDrought resistant and waterlogging tolerant conifer with strong roots?
Comments (11)Thank you all for your replies, I can understand the difficulty in choosing a species fitting in these climate constraints. Any opinion is warmly welcome. I've checked a scientific paper about drought and waterlogging tolerance of many tree species which nicely lists each with values ranging from 0 (no tolerance) to 5 (maximal tolerance), and those numbers have kind of surprised me (didn't expect Sequoiadendron giganteum to be slightly more drought resistant than Metasequoia glyptostroboides, yet slightly less waterlogging resistant). I did copy some species scores and created a resume, with marked what was in my mind (perhaps erroneously), a "benchmark" conifer for drought, waterlogging resistance and fast growth, dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). Apparently those numbers show that bald cypress would be my best choice since it scores above any other species suggested (and others I was wondering about) in both drought and waterlogging resistance, however since neither the drought nor the waterlogging may be as severe as requiring such a high performance score, I'm curious about how would those species be ranked against each other regarding growth rate (since I have little idea about this and maybe a Pseudotsuga menziesii would score enough for my garden yet grow taller and faster than bald cypress) ? Thank you...See MoreUser
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