Plant up cutting

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Plant up cutting

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I have just planted up about 20 cuttings that I planted about 8 weeks ago. I had a success rate of about 70-80%.

Most of them are Chinese elm cuttings with some Japanese maple, trident maple, swamp cypress and a couple of rose merry thrown in for good measure.

Planted up in a mixture of 1mm pumice and coco peat.

I'm not very experienced at taking cuttings but I find it strange that some cuttings fail all together, some have one very small root and others have loads of roots.

Hopefully they all survive.

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Thanks for showing these and your process, I'm trying to grow successful cuttings as well and it proves to be harder than I thought... Do you have them in a greenhouse set up?
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Yeah, one of those mini green house trays. Only about 300mm x 200mm.

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Post by boom64 »

Well done Homer, BEWARE!! The next thing you know your backyard will look like a small nursery :o
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