Re: success stories/propagation using potato

Don,
The skin of the potato would keep moisture in the flesh of it, but there
would be no humidity protection for the leaf portion of the cutting unless
you put the whole thing under glass.  I'm wondering if potatoes provide
hormones or whatever similar to those found in willows that would enhance
rooting capability.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Martinson" <llmen@wi.rr.com>
To: <propagation@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: success stories/propagation using potato


> >I virtually never see any traffic on hort.net's woodies and propagation
> >lists so I'm sending out my little success story to get things rolling.
>
>
> Here's a question I've been meaning to ask.  On a recent Gardening By
> theYard (HGTV), a method of propagation was mentioned where the
> cutting to be propagated was inserted into a potato after first
> having made a hole slightly smaller than the cutting.  No further
> details were given other than to plant the entire potato-cutting.
>
> I realize this sounds rather Jerry Baker-esque, but yet, I think:
> hmmmm, maybe that just might work.  Has anyone ever heard of this,
> much less tried it?   I usually find infomation on GBTY to be
> relatively reliable (Paul James humor aside).
> -- 
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> l*@wi.rr.com
>
>
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