Well I am one that like a challenge and likes to try and grow anything that will grow, litterally I guess. I like starting things from seed and have only recently gotten into starting trees from cuttings. This was kinda thrust on me as my grandmother has a plum tree of some sort and she wants to start new ones. I roses, aquatic plants, fruit trees from seed and many different succulents. I also have a Christmas Cactus and a spider plant that was given to me recently so we will see how well they do.
Hi fish_4_all and a warm welcome to GardenStew from beautiful Sweden. Sounds like you have a natural gardening talent, will be great to have you with us Don't forget to check out our blogs, member map and upload any plant images you have to PlantStew for all to see Details here: http://www.gardenstew.com/plantstew/help#3 // frank
Hi there fish and a warm welcome to GardenStew from West Lothian in Scotland. You must show us some photographs of your plants as you certainly have a good variety. :-D
Hiya... fish_4_all from east Texas. Welcome to the Garden Stew. You will really enjoy yourself here. So jump right in and make yourself at home.
Thank you all for the warm welcome. I will get pictures as soon as I can. Really don't take any of my plants as I take more of the kids and other stuff.
Hi fish 4 all Welcome to Gardenstew from southern Ontario! I'm most interested in how you start tree's from cuttings. My neighbor has a very old "Snow Apple" tree and asked me if there is any way to start cuttings from it.
Hello from Singapore and welcome! You defifintely have a lot of patience to nature and grow a plant from seeds. Please show us some photos of your varied collection.
Hi Fish! Crazy weather we're having, eh? I'm intrigued by your growing trees from cuttings, do you mean grafting? I was trained to do that years ago, messy business but it works. Welcome to the Stew!
Crazy weather ain't the word! I thought I had webbed feet but by the end of this winter I may have webbed fingers and grow flippers. Not grafting, yet. I took 75+ cuttings from 3-6 inches long right off the tree in September and used rooting hormone to get them to take root. Success rate is actually pretty high, higher than I thought. Will post pics when I transplant the ones that have real roots and not just the little white nodes.
Whew, you must have a seriously green thumb! I managed to do that with a plum (which I later killed, blush) but it was one out of many tries! I think I mostly grafted apples, if I can strain my brain back that far...
Hah, I found your introduction thread! Welcome to you from mid-Norway. Good luck with those cuttings, it sounds very exciting. I'm looking forward to following your progress.
Hi Fish....welcome Sounds like you are a person after my own heart. I love experimenting with cuttings and growing my own plants from seed. Maybe I could get a few tips from you
Ask away, I am no expert by any means but I seem to have a knack for growing anything I set my mind to. That is except for herbs indoors.
OK Fish, my question to you. I don't know if you can help, or if you grow them. I have a few lovely rhodedendron bushes and a friend asked me if I could let them have some cuttings. I took three for him and took three for myself. I took the cuttings directly beneath a leaf node, took off the lower leaves and placed them in ericaceous compost. My friend also applied rooting powder to his cuttings. Unfortunately, none of them took Any ideas :-?
Well I would try and do it the same way I did the cuttings from my grandmas plum tree. Remmeber, I have not done this before either but I will bet I have spent a good 100+ hours researching it. Yes, I have no life outside of raising the kids. I did find this though http://www.flounder.ca/FraserSouth/basi ... gation.asp I will have a post in the next couple days on how I did the cuttings from my grandmas plum tree in great detail. That is how I would do it simply because it worked for me for the plum tree. You could always try something I read about and might try with my rose tree. Take a long limb, make a small cut on the underside and bury it in the ground or in a container with potting soil. Weigh it down so it stays in contact with the soil. Eventually it could take root and you can cut it off and start a new plant. There are variations I have read about. Make a small cut on top, prop the cut open with a toothpick, pack with sphangum moss (I think, not sure) and wrap with a plastic bag or plastic wrap to keep moisture in and in a couple months you could have roots. The method is called layering I guess and is also on that site.
