Re: Healing or heeling?
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- Subject: Re: Healing or heeling?
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:47:46 -0500
Nan, I don't know what you'd call letting a cutting dry, but to take
a heel means to take a small sliver of the main plant stem along with
the side branch you're using for a cutting. This should be trimmed
with an Xacto knife or other sharp blade, so it's clean and not
jagged as it is when you rip it off the plant. Some - not all by any
means - plants root more readily if they have some of the mature
tissue attached.
To get a heel, you pull the cutting material off the plant instead of
cutting it off. A gentle but sharp tug downward will do it. What
you want is a bit of the outer layers of stem tissue.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Nan Sterman <nsterman@mindsovermatter.com>
>
> When you talk about allowing cuttings to dry, is that "heeling" or
> "healing?" Can someone give me a definiton of the term?
>
> nan
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> Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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