RE: Rooting hormone - overwintering
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  • Subject: RE: Rooting hormone - overwintering
  • From: &* R* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:20:14 -0700
The buckets would also be great for those late freezes.  Nancy    Love cats too.
 
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: RE: Rooting hormone - overwintering
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:15:55 -0400
From: 1018@rewrite.hort.net

Nancy,

It sounds like you have quite a system and grow a lot of plant material. Heavy snow broke my first frame. I’ve got a stronger one now.  The Tidy Cat buckets along one side help to keep the canvas canopy stretched tight so the snow can slide off rather than weigh it down.

 

Kitty

 

From: owner-perennials@hort.net [mailto:owner-perennials@hort.net] On Behalf Of Nancy Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 9:20 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: RE: Rooting hormone

 

I did try to use the pvc pipes one year but using clear plastic like Native Gardens was using to protect their nursery plants.  Rain, snow got too heavy.  Still using the bottom frames to keep pots up right.  In the woods creatures run over everything, therefore every pot needs support on hillside so got several Denso 30 by 30 containers that I drilled holes in one side.  I think the tarp covered one did just fine for the Asarums but the little hostas got the flow cloth.  The seedlings from NARGS need some protection also but evergreens just need to be on the ground.  It is not as cold usually here as you all have up north.  But I now know what is not normally hardy here and now dead after the last 2 winters here in Tennessee.  Still got a lot of empty pots to go.  I am slowing down on what I grow though.  Maybe, nancy
 

To: p*@hort.net
Subject: RE: Rooting hormone
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 19:57:28 -0400
From: 1*@rewrite.hort.net

Nancy,

I’m not a particularly neat person, I just don’t need a huge number of cuttings and these clear totes make it so easy.  I take cuttings in early June, and after the roots develop, pot them up.

 

I pot up quite a few things in the fall and huddle them together through the winter with the most fragile at the center.  I group them with a frame that is normally used for a car – I just don’t use the legs.  From Dec thru Feb I cover the frame to keep out excess moisture.  The pots are on top of shelving w/out legs to help drainage. I used to use straw for perimeter insulation but the pink/blue boards are easier and reusable. Here are some pictures of my overwintering:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kmrsy/albums/72157639664111664

 

One particular year there wasn’t enough room under the 10x20 canopy so I improvised with other kinds of framework, but usually 10by20 is plenty. The pic w the cat shows everything covered w shredded leaves. But some years I didn’t have the time to do that so used frost blankets instead.

 

Kitty

 

From: o*@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Nancy Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 7:05 PM
To: p*@hort.net
Subject: RE: Rooting hormone

 

I looked at some of your projects and you are so neat.  I root a lot of plants and most make it until the last 2 winters came.  Lost a lot of the Hydrangeas and other cuttings I needed so badly.  I can't get them all in one cold frame like yours but Remay and tarps covering plants sitting on ground work very well here in east Tennessee.  I just did not have enough float cloth and tarps to cover the newest cuttings.  I do now and will get them neatly organized like you have yours in one of the pictures.  That was a joke....I do what I can since my plants and I live at different places.  Still many more plants I would like to grow.  Nancy
 

To: p*@hort.net
Subject: RE: Rooting hormone
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:55:27 -0400
From: 1*@rewrite.hort.net

Barb, for annuals and some perennials, I wouldn’t use anything either. I just assumed he meant shrubs.

 

Here’s a link to a small shrub rooting project I did several years ago.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kmrsy/albums/72157601054304873

 

Kitty

 

From: o*@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of 5*@rewrite.hort.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 1:16 PM
To: p*@hort.net
Subject: Re: Rooting hormone

 

In a message dated 9/9/2015 12:05:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 1*@rewrite.hort.net writes:

Having said that, some online searches turned up papers that
recommended 500 mg/L IBA concentrations for Passiflora (>90%
success rate).

Interesting, I root mine with nothing added - no rooting hormone.

I do a lot of cuttings of things like coleus, geraniums, etc.

Nothing difficult.

What would you recommend for shrub roses?

Is it too late to take cuttings now.

Beat wishes, Barbara

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