Re: Re: Propagating (Hardwood)

**p*@intrepid.cdg-hargray.com**

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

yes, phillip.  sorry 'PRG' is simply a habit from work...

>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.

ok - so i should take my cuttings this fall and 'stuck' them this fall -
correct?

>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'.

what was the soil like there?  did you amend it at all?

protected from wind? dogs, rain, what?

did you have to cover it come spring?  did you do anything else to
it the following year?
this seems too easy - cut off dormant wood, stick it in the ground,
and it roots itself and takes off.  is it that simple?

PRG

whoops ...

Phillip

Sadorus, IL
zone 5

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