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Plant up cutting

Posted: February 29th, 2016, 3:10 pm
by Homer911
I have just planted up about 20 cuttings that I planted about 8 weeks ago. I had a success rate of about 70-80%.

Most of them are Chinese elm cuttings with some Japanese maple, trident maple, swamp cypress and a couple of rose merry thrown in for good measure.

Planted up in a mixture of 1mm pumice and coco peat.

I'm not very experienced at taking cuttings but I find it strange that some cuttings fail all together, some have one very small root and others have loads of roots.

Hopefully they all survive.

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Re: Plant up cutting

Posted: February 29th, 2016, 5:00 pm
by ben17487
Thanks for showing these and your process, I'm trying to grow successful cuttings as well and it proves to be harder than I thought... Do you have them in a greenhouse set up?

Re: Plant up cutting

Posted: February 29th, 2016, 5:17 pm
by Homer911
Yeah, one of those mini green house trays. Only about 300mm x 200mm.

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Re: Plant up cutting

Posted: February 29th, 2016, 7:48 pm
by boom64
Well done Homer, BEWARE!! The next thing you know your backyard will look like a small nursery :o
Cheers John