What did you root today?

Richard · 03-20-2009, 09:55 PM

Here's a thread about rooting -- another plant propagation method!

Today was a whole lot of rooting, tooting fun: pomegranates, peach, apple, nectarine, plum, apricot, fig, wu wei zi ... about 400 cuttings in all!

Michael_Andrew · 03-20-2009, 10:29 PM

Start calling you Roto Rooter!

john_ny · 03-23-2009, 10:45 AM

It can be done. I've rooted thousands, over the years. The best time is before they have leafed out. The time around here (NYC area) is around St. Patrick's Day. This, conveniently, is also when peach trees are pruned so, if you have a commercial peach grower in your area, you can probably get some of the prunings.
You want to use cuttings that are about the diameter, and length, of a wood pencil. Dip the cutting in hormone, and stick in a mixture of half peat and half perlite, in a bed, outside, with bottom heat. The idea is to keep the bottoms warm, and the tops cool, so you get root development, before too much leafing out.

Grafting of fruit trees onto different root stocks is done for several reasons. A standard apple tree usually gets too large for most people, so they graft them onto dwarfing root stocks. However, peaches don't get that large, so the main reasons for different root stocks are things like nematode resistance, etc. If you don't have a nematode or other problem in your area, rooted cuttings are perfectly fine.

Many old ideas die slowly. Peaches, and many other fruits, do not come reliably true from seed so, years ago, nurseries would get peach pits from canneries, and plant them, and then graft the desired variety onto the seedlings.

Now, we have better hormones, and they can even be cloned.

A couple of years ago, I stuck some cuttings in March. I was potting them up in June, and two, for some reason, got left in the bed. I didn't notice until September and, at that time, they were 3 feet tall, and one was even branched. The root balls were too big to fit in 1 gallon pots. The one that was branched, flowered, and produced fruit the next year.

Caloosamusa · 03-23-2009, 06:04 PM

It is difficult to get any plant to root in one day but a couple months ago I planted a Taheti lime cutting dusted with rooting hormone. Today it is rooted, and putting forth new leaves, and a new flower bud. The flower bud was removed.

Richard · 03-31-2009, 01:35 AM

32 more pomegranate cuttings!

Lagniappe · 03-31-2009, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by john_ny

It can be done. I've rooted thousands, over the years. The best time is before they have leafed out. The time around here (NYC area) is around St. Patrick's Day. This, conveniently, is also when peach trees are pruned so, if you have a commercial peach grower in your area, you can probably get some of the prunings.
You want to use cuttings that are about the diameter, and length, of a wood pencil. Dip the cutting in hormone, and stick in a mixture of half peat and half perlite, in a bed, outside, with bottom heat. The idea is to keep the bottoms warm, and the tops cool, so you get root development, before too much leafing out.

Grafting of fruit trees onto different root stocks is done for several reasons. A standard apple tree usually gets too large for most people, so they graft them onto dwarfing root stocks. However, peaches don't get that large, so the main reasons for different root stocks are things like nematode resistance, etc. If you don't have a nematode or other problem in your area, rooted cuttings are perfectly fine.

Many old ideas die slowly. Peaches, and many other fruits, do not come reliably true from seed so, years ago, nurseries would get peach pits from canneries, and plant them, and then graft the desired variety onto the seedlings.

Now, we have better hormones, and they can even be cloned.

A couple of years ago, I stuck some cuttings in March. I was potting them up in June, and two, for some reason, got left in the bed. I didn't notice until September and, at that time, they were 3 feet tall, and one was even branched. The root balls were too big to fit in 1 gallon pots. The one that was branched, flowered, and produced fruit the next year.

I have a 'Bonfire Peach' whose rootstock has grown nearly as high as the tree and fruited. I let it get this big because I was planning to try to root cuttings from it and graft scions from the Bonfire. Do you guys think this is a good idea?

harveyc · 03-31-2009, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard

32 more pomegranate cuttings!

What cultivars?

john_ny · 03-31-2009, 10:38 AM

Worth a try, Pete.

Bob · 03-31-2009, 03:16 PM

Two Dragon Fruit(red and Yellow). Thanks Patty in Wisc.

alpha010 · 03-31-2009, 07:37 PM

wu wei zi? richard...

Richard · 03-31-2009, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by harveyc

What [pomegranate] cultivars?

Eversweet. This cultivar produces great tasting fruit in coastal-influenced areas but the fruit is less desirable when grown far inland (e.g., Utah).

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Originally Posted by alpha010

wu wei zi? richard...

Wu Wei Zi = Five Flavor Berry/Fruit/Spice. This is Schisandra chinensis aka Magnolia Vine. In China the berries are harvested ripe like white pepper and either used fresh or dried. The name comes from being all at once sweet, sour, salty, peppery, and fragrant. I have the self-fertile cultivar obtained from One Green World in Oregon.

Lagniappe · 04-28-2009, 09:12 PM

50 + Buddleia!

Caloosamusa · 04-29-2009, 10:08 AM

A dozen more shrimp plants!

Lagniappe · 10-02-2009, 04:14 PM

A truck load of poms

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