Casuarina and Acacia by cuttings?

[Hornet]

I know these are normally propagated via seed which is very easy but i was curious to their ability to reproduce from cuttings? Has anyone ever had experience with this?

[kcpoole]

Casuarina I know work from Airlayer, so assume cuttings will be OK too
Acacia I have no idea :

ken

[Petra]

Hi Hornet,
i had ago last season airlayering 2 diffrent accacias with no success. The branch just died off. the first was Acacia Howitti, the other floribunda. I thought they would be easily propergate being a legumes.

[Joel]

Casuarina and Allocasuarina require high humidity to strike. Try semi hardwood now if you can find any suitable material, and soft tips when it's a little bit warmer. Acacia are species dependant. Some such as A. terminalis strike readily. Others such as A. aphylla are VERY difficult. I have not had much success with Acacia species, and most, such as A. howwitti and cultivars are rather difficult, hence expensive. Ray Nesci has developed an effective way of propagating them via cuttings and hence he is the cheapest seller of them I have found. He respectfully looks after his business by not sharing EVERY trick he knows.

Joel

[Hornet]

Cheers guys, we have a large casurina in the front yard so i might try come cuttings and air layers, see what works. I found info on acacia's and as you said, some are easy, some or pretty much impossible. I guess i'll just try it and see how it goes.

[shibui]

I've found most acacias quite easy to strike, especially the cultivars sold commercially as most of these are grown from cuttings. I just use standard cutting techniques, mix, rooting gel and mist. 90-100% with most of the ones I have tried. Had to resort to seeds for A. aphylla but a friend fluked one from cutting(no-one told her it couldn't be done so she did it!)

Alocasuarinas on the other hand have defied me so far. Not a single root produced but only a couple of tries yet.