Re: witchhazel & boxwood
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- Subject: Re: witchhazel & boxwood
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:20:49 -0400
Carolyn, haven't, personally, done much with box cuttings, but
received instructions from one who has done hundreds.
She takes tip an heel cuttings (where you pull off a stem and leave a
small amount of the main stem cambium layer attached - if it's really
ragged, trim it with an Xacto knife. Tip cuttings are about 2 inches
long. Heel cuttings will have more stems, like a tiny shrub.
Remove lower leaves - about half way up the cutting. You can use
rooting hormone or not; she says it doesn't seem to matter.
She uses vermiculite as a cutting medium because it is light and if
she wants to dump the pot to check on rooting, there is virtually no
damage to forming roots.
She uses a 4" pot and sticks the cuttings pretty thickly. After
watering, she covers the pots with bubble wrap held up by 4 small
stakes, which she prefers to plastic because it doesn't collapse and
touch the leaves. She cuts it into boxes - easy to tape the sides
with clear packing tape - but says if you don't want to do that, just
use a tall plastic propagator.
Then, she just leaves them - checking periodically to make sure they
aren't drying out. I would imagine in a shady spot or inside under
lights.
Once the cuttings have rooted, she pots them on individually in 4"
pots. when those pots are full of roots, she lines them out in a
holding bed in her garden until they are large enough to plant
permanently.
She says they are easy to root. She's even taken them in winter, but
says they are slow to root in her cold greenhouse.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Carolyn Schaffner <drsnooks@buffnet.net>
> Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:34 PM
>
> Hello!
>
> Please send advise on propogating cultivars of witchhazel and
boxwood.
>
> I need about 100 box plants.
>
> Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY
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