Taking Hardwood Cuttings

Hardwood cuttings are typically taken in early spring or early winter when the plant is not actively growing.

Taking hardwood cuttings.

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. How to take hardwood cuttings. 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. Take hardwood cuttings at the end of the growing season from autumn through to spring when the stems are fully ripened.

Cut each branch below the bud so. Removing a pencil thick stem. Select healthy lengths of branches that grew well the past season. Take cuttings that are close to pencil thickness from current season s growth it will be mature and woody not soft and green.

Select strong healthy straight woody shoots. Cutting your dormant plant 1. Cut off any unripened green growth at the tips. Branches that grew poorly over the past growing.

The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop. Removing the shoot tip. To increase the chances of rooting cuttings. If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings.

But in a pinch hardwood cuttings can be taken anytime of the year. 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. Take your hardwood cuttings in mid autumn after the leaves fall.

Prepare each cutting by removing the shoot tip just above a bud and trimming the bottom.