Taking Hardwood Cuttings
Take cuttings that are close to pencil thickness from current season s growth it will be mature and woody not soft and green.
Taking hardwood cuttings. Select strong healthy straight woody shoots. Cut each branch below the bud so. Hardwood cuttings are typically taken in early spring or early winter when the plant is not actively growing. Removing a pencil thick stem.
The best time for taking hardwood cuttings is from early autumn when the leaves drop to late winter. 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. Look for well ripened pencil thick shoots and remove them horizontally below a node leaf joint or bud. Select healthy lengths of branches that grew well the past season.
The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop. But in a pinch hardwood cuttings can be taken anytime of the year. Cutting your dormant plant 1. Cut off any unripened green growth at the tips.
To increase the chances of rooting cuttings. While you can plant hardwood cuttings in the. Take hardwood cuttings at the end of the growing season from autumn through to spring when the stems are fully ripened. 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.
Cut straight across at the base below a bud or. 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. Branches that grew poorly over the past growing. If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings.
Prepare each cutting by removing the shoot tip just above a bud and trimming the bottom.