Re: Propagating (Hardwood)

**"Rosenlund" rosenlund@transport.com>**

Is it Phillip? I think I recall your name was Phillip... Hi,

I'm NO expert on taking cuttings.....(yet!)... I have some 700 in my
greenhouse this year, and hope to "stuck" another 1,000 or so yet this
year... quite the experiment as I've already lost some from too much sun
before getting the shade cloth up...  :-P   I'm still taking softwood
cuttings now (perhaps that is part of the problem) but some varieties are
looking VERY well.  Pencil size IS working the best.

The only experience I've had with Hardwood cuttings is by the instruction of
my green thumb Mother.  She brought me a cutting in the month of early Nov.
and told me to bury it (like a seed)... this was an old growth branch of
about a foot long (thinner then a pencil) with 4-5 short branches of
hardened off new grown of about 4 inches long each, NO leaves.

I set it (no treatment of any kind, thought I recall leaving an inch of the
new growth out to "breath") in a shaded, damp, protected corner of my
concrete steps.  Spring it was shooting up canes and several years
later (moved it to Mom's place) it bloomed fine.  It was the species rose,
'rosa cymosa'.

                ~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep and Old Roses

-----Original Message-----
From: prgramly@intrepid.cdg-hargray.com
>on the topic of propogation - has anyone had success rooting
>hardwood cuttings.

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