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.
Why propagate from dormant hardwood cuttings.
I m going to talk about asexual propagation by cuttings during the summer.
I ve had a lot of experience with dormant hardwood cuttings.
Propagating grapes from hardwood cuttings.
Hardwood cuttings are taken from dormant mature stems in late fall winter or early spring.
Hardwood cuttings are fun to try if you want to propagate woody shrubs like willows dogwoods and currents.
They worked best when pruned before the sap starts flowing up.
Cut in late winter from the mother plant.
Each year during the dormant season grapes should be pruned to ensure a healthy crop the following year.
Just watered when temps are warm.
Hardwood cuttings done in the late fall or winter do not need to be covered.
Last winter i did my hardwood cuttings on 3 31 with great results and will probably always do them that way from now on.
This is my favourite way to propagate plants in my plant nursery.
In iowa hardwood stem cuttings should be collected in late february or early march.
Plants generally are fully dormant with no obvious signs of active growth.
Hardwood stem cuttings are collected in late winter when the plant material is dormant from wood of the previous season s growth.
Grape plants are easy to propagate from cuttings.
There are 3 types of stem cuttings.
The wood is firm and does not bend easily.
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.
Cuttings taken from dormant before budding mature woody stems in late fall winter or early spring.
Early spring cuttings may be more fun for the family since the weather is warmer and it is before yard or garden work.
Using a sterile medium perlite vermiculite helps to ensure there aren t any critters to nibble on the new growth.
Keeping em moist but not soggy.
Softwood cuttings are done in the summer semi hardwood cutting are done in the fall and hardwood cutting we do in the winter when the plant is dormant.
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.
How to propagate plants from dormant hardwood cuttings.
Hardwood cuttings are used most often for deciduous shrubs but can be used for many evergreens.
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.
