Re: it rooted!--transition to soil
- Subject: Re: it rooted!--transition to soil
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:47:19 EST
In a message dated 12/16/02 12:03:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Blee811@aol.com writes:
> > I thought there was a discussion on this list about making muddy water
> > and making the water / soil transaction gradual. Anyone remember what
> > month this was discussed? I attempted to look thru the archives, but....
> > not the greatest at that.
>
> I've done this successfully with a few perennials--just add the soil to the
>
> water over a period of time, a little each day. Be sure to start with a
> container that you can destroy when you're finished if you have to do so to
>
> remove the plant. Don't know if this will work for a woody cutting.
>
Donna,
The woody cutting you have will require a dormant period. If you have green
growth now you will have to think a lot about how to keep it alive. If there
was some dormancy it might do. I would keep it planted somehow, some light
mix in a cold and lighted placed. If it drops the leaves, it will probably
make new ones as the days lengthen. Grow on the dry side but not completely
dry. This is mostly guesswork but one should give it a try. From each of
these experiments, one learns something.
Some of this type of cutting are collected in the fall, buried in frames over
the winter and root readily in the spring. This is an old technique. Partly,
it seems that is what your cutting did. Fruit trees and their kin are
notoriously difficult to root so you have had the first garden miracle of the
season.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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