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I have access to some sections of jacarnada branch (maybe 5 inch diameter) that have no roots or leaves. This might sound like a stupid question, but will they root if I pop them in a pot with soil, or maybe even put them in water? I think i've seen this done with olive stumps that had no roots... but i'm not sure. i need an answer pretty quick, cos my dad wil probably chuck them.
Thankyou

get them in a seasol bath and leave them for a week or two and you should get some new root nublets then put them into a pot or the ground and you should be good

Jamie wrote:get them in a seasol bath and leave them for a week or two and you should get some new root nublets then put them into a pot or the ground and you should be good

How much seasol to water please?
Thanks heaps

enough water to cover the stump where you want roots and a good splash of seasol, no measurements just put in as much as you thnk is necessary

Thankyou lots and lots... again. hopeing to get something decent out of it (fingers crossed)

Hey Missy,

I have tried cuttings from jacaranda on numerous occasions without success. I never used any rooting hormones, soaked in seasol or willow water,so maybe that could be a way to succeed.

If you want to have a try with some bits I would be interested to see if you have any luck, Jacaranda are one of my favorite trees. To be able to grow them from large cuttings would be fantastic as I can always access material from a mature tree.

Matt

I would say that with cuttings such as this it is always worth a try. Nothing ventered nothing gianed.
I tried an olive cutting last year and it died pretty quickly. I now think it is alot to do with the tuber at the bottom of olive stumps that creates the succes of the flat bottom cut. People get some amazing results with the lignotuber of a gum but you can't do the same with cuttings of a gum.

It is well worth tring them in a seasol bath. I myself would try it in a very strong mix as well.
There are other ways that may work as well. Using rooting hormone and bottom heat. Or just bury the whole cutting until spring . When you dig them up they should have started to callous over at the base.

I would try as many different ways as you can manage.

Bretts wrote:I would say that with cuttings such as this it is always worth a try. Nothing ventered nothing gianed.
I tried an olive cutting last year and it died pretty quickly. I now think it is alot to do with the tuber at the bottom of olive stumps that creates the succes of the flat bottom cut. People get some amazing results with the lignotuber of a gum but you can't do the same with cuttings of a gum.

It is well worth tring them in a seasol bath. I myself would try it in a very strong mix as well.
There are other ways that may work as well. Using rooting hormone and bottom heat. Or just bury the whole cutting until spring . When you dig them up they should have started to callous over at the base.

I would try as many different ways as you can manage.

I was wondering about these other two methods, what's involved?

Well i left them in a seasol bath for two weeks, but decided to put them in the soil when the water started to smell like a swamp They've been in the soil since then and i checked them this arvo and they were still green! Had to bash them with a rock to check though So theres still hope!

Missy, you brute! Just scratch the bark with a fingernail and you will be able to see if the underneath is green

Good to hear you are having some luck. If they are still green a month after potting, in my experience you are sure of them taking. I have had one or two die after this stage, but when I pulled them up to throw them out, they had roots, so they died from some other cause.

Glenda

Glenda wrote:Missy, you brute! Just scratch the bark with a fingernail and you will be able to see if the underneath is green

Good to hear you are having some luck. If they are still green a month after potting, in my experience you are sure of them taking. I have had one or two die after this stage, but when I pulled them up to throw them out, they had roots, so they died from some other cause.

Glenda

Haha Glenda! I admit i can be a bit rough, but my nails aren't very strong and the bark is very hard and thick, so really it was the only way... These arent your average cuttungs, the biggest is about 6 inches in diameter, so the bark is corky already

Go for the brute force and ignorance approach, surprising how many problems that will solve.
Good luck missy, no experience with Jacs. And I have several pots full of apparently dead Eucs which everyone told me would eventually sprout. Taken about Christmas, so wondering if it is time to just recycle the potting mix now? I've tried a few others since, now I am burying the lignotuber because someone said that was a good idea, one maybe lives.