RE: exposure for cuttings
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  • Subject: RE: exposure for cuttings
  • From: &* <a*@hargray.com>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 04:36:22 -0400
I know I'm late in replying Kitty but I've always done mine in heavy shade
as well until they at least start to root, and then I usually move them into
a tad more sun and I mean filtered. I have a picnic table under an oak that
I usually use. I don't cover mine and have about 50% success depending on
what it is. I'm currently on a hydrangea kick. The macrophyllas seem to be
the easiest. Limited success with Lady in Red and preziosa. I suspect I keep
my soil too wet. I need to get some vermiculite. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Kitty
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:54 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] exposure for cuttings

If I had a greenhouse, I'd probably be able to contol the environment more 
to their liking without keeping them in a box.  Although it has been 
terribly humid this past month, the time for cuttings is now.  It's also a 
time for wind and the humidity is abating now.  The box is to reduce 
transiration but I don't think putting it in direct sunlight which would 
heat things up  would be good for them.  But I wonder how much sunlight they

still need to do their work.

I guess I'll just wait and see.
Thanks for the response.


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] exposure for cuttings


>I dunno. I've always rooted cuttings in shade, but I've thought it was
> to reduce transpiration, not heat. But then, I've never tried to root
> them in a closed environment, believing good air circulation was a
> necessary component.
>
> The second nursery I worked for was a SoCal wholesale houseplant
> grower. He had a large greenhouse dedicated to rooting cuttings. The
> greenhouse, like most SoCal greenhouses then, was sprayed with
> whitewash to keep the direct sun out and, when the winter rains came,
> to let the winter sun in. So it was shady most of the time. It had an
> exhaust fan to move the air. And it had a high-humidity irrigation
> system--a Mexican named Frank [probably Francisco to his wife and
> friends]--who, in peak summer, constantly moved through the area
> dragging a hose with a fog nozzle.
>
> The rooting success rate was near 100 percent, so I've always tried to
> emulate his practices.
>
>
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:53 AM, Kitty wrote:
>
>> Ever since someone on this list (I think it was Cathy) said they
>> started their cuttings ina clear storage box, I've been doing the
>> same with mostly good success.  I placed the box between the west
>> side of the house and a cherry tree so it got filtered sunlight,
>> maybe a direct hit for a short while.
>>
>> Last year the tree died and I took it down.  It seems to me that w/
>> out the tree's protection the cuttings would heat up too much if I
>> put the box in the same place with a western exposure - too much
>> direct sun.  So I put them on my front porch, eastern exposure but,
>> for the most part filtered by a dogwood tree.  I don't think this
>> looks to be enough sunlight.
>>
>> So just how much light do cuttings in a box need?  These are of
>> shrubs - Viburnum, Lilac, Magnolia.  Would the north side be better?
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Kitty
>> neIN, Zone 5
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>
> Inland Jim
> Willamette Valley
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