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Home » Recent Newsletters » How to Root Cuttings

How to Root Cuttings

Published : September 11, 2011

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Rooting cuttings at home is super easy and these
techniques work year round.

All you need is an old fish tank, or an opaque
plastic tub from Walmart, and a little knowledge.
The list of what you can root at home is almost endless.

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Building the system is as easy as pie and many people have
adapted my plans to simply using a plastic tote from Walmart
for the cover, and a plastic dish pan with holes drilled in
the bottom for the flat that you stick the cuttings in. Just
make sure you drill lots of holes in the bottom of the dish pan
if you go that route.

Typically in May, June and July you are working with what
we call softwood cuttings.  Then by late July and August
the cuttings are semi hardwood cuttings.  The come fall and
winter the cuttings are considered hardwood cuttings.

They all root fairly easily and at the bottom of this
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Comments

  1. Mike Couvillon says

    June 5, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    In all your articles I have watched or read on soft wood cutting. I have yet to see how long it takes the cuttings to root

    Could you please tell me about how long.

    MIKE

    Reply
    • Mike says

      June 5, 2012 at 8:36 pm

      Mike, depending on the plant two weeks is about the shortest time, 8 weeks would be about the longest for softwood cuttings.

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