Taking Hardwood Cuttings

If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings.

Taking hardwood cuttings.

Look for well ripened pencil thick shoots and remove them horizontally below a node leaf joint or bud. Cutting your dormant plant 1. To increase the chances of rooting cuttings. Removing a pencil thick stem.

Prepare each cutting by removing the shoot tip just above a bud and trimming the bottom. How to take hardwood cuttings. Branches that grew poorly over the past growing. Cut straight across at the base below a bud or.

Select strong healthy straight woody shoots. Take hardwood cuttings at the end of the growing season from autumn through to spring when the stems are fully ripened. Hardwood cuttings are typically taken in early spring or early winter when the plant is not actively growing. Cut off any unripened green growth at the tips.

The point of taking hardwood cuttings in non growth periods is more to do with doing as little harm to the parent plant as possible. While you can plant hardwood cuttings in the. Take your hardwood cuttings in mid autumn after the leaves fall. At that time use sharp clean pruners to take six inch long pencil diameter cuttings from vigorous shoots on the plants you want to propagate.

Removing the shoot tip. Hardwood cuttings grown on outdoors select vigorous healthy shoots that have grown in the current year remove the soft tip growth cut into sections 15 30cm 6in 1ft long cutting cleanly above a bud at the top with a sloping cut to shed water and. Select healthy lengths of branches that grew well the past season. Cut each branch below the bud so.

But in a pinch hardwood cuttings can be taken anytime of the year.