Why Propagate From Dormant Hardwood

How to propagate plants from dormant hardwood cuttings.

Why propagate from dormant hardwood.

The wood is firm and does not bend easily. Overall each cane provides several cuttings and for every 10 cuttings i get about 6 7 new plants but this can really vary so do more than you need. Using a sterile medium perlite vermiculite helps to ensure there aren t any critters to nibble on the new growth. Cut in late winter from the mother plant.

Spring and summer is when most people think about propagating garden plants but caring for tender cuttings through the heat of summer can be challenging. Each year during the dormant season grapes should be pruned to ensure a healthy crop the following year. Cuttings taken in the late fall and winter are known as hardwood cuttings because just as it sounds the wood is much harder during the fall and winter than it is during the growing season. Rooting dormant hardwood fig cuttings january 31 2020 ogw growing guides there are few activities more rewarding to a gardener than being able to propagate their own plants.

We take hardwood cuttings for rooting in late autumn when the plant is going dormant for the winter or in early spring before buds form and open. I ve had a lot of experience with dormant hardwood cuttings. Fortunately a number of popular trees and shrubs can be rooted easily in the dormant season via hardwood cuttings see table and require much less attention. Grape plants are easy to propagate from cuttings.

Plants generally are fully dormant with no obvious signs of active growth. Young first year wood works best for this blueberry plants don t propagate as easily from older woody cuttings. They worked best when pruned before the sap starts flowing up. Hardwood cuttings are even simpler to prepare than softwood or herbaceous cuttings as we use cuttings from dormant deciduous trees and woody plants and this technique is very useful for propagating fruit trees such as figs pomegranates mulberries and quince.

The dormant season will be considerably shorter in more southern locations just be sure to collect cuttings after the plants have gone completely dormant in the fall or early wither and before the plants have broken bud in the spring. Hardwood cuttings are most commonly taken during the winter months when the plant is dormant. Hardwood cuttings are generally used in propagating deciduous shrubs and trees such as grapes soft wooded trees like willows and poplars and bushes such as gooseberries and currants. Hardwood cuttings are taken from dormant mature stems in late fall winter or early spring.

Hardwood propagation is the most common method though there are a select few types of grapes that cannot be propagated using hardwood cuttings like muscadine grapes. The example shown here is for late fall. Keeping em moist but not soggy.