Taking Hardwood Cuttings

If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings.

Taking hardwood cuttings.

Take cuttings that are close to pencil thickness from current season s growth it will be mature and woody not soft and green. Take hardwood cuttings at the end of the growing season from autumn through to spring when the stems are fully ripened. Cutting your dormant plant 1. Select healthy lengths of branches that grew well the past season.

But in a pinch hardwood cuttings can be taken anytime of the year. 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. Cut off any unripened green growth at the tips. Take your hardwood cuttings in mid autumn after the leaves fall.

Look for well ripened pencil thick shoots and remove them horizontally below a node leaf joint or bud. Select strong healthy straight woody shoots. While you can plant hardwood cuttings in the. 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.

Cut each branch below the bud so. How to take hardwood cuttings. Branches that grew poorly over the past growing. Cut straight across at the base below a bud or.

To increase the chances of rooting cuttings. 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. Removing a pencil thick stem. Prepare each cutting by removing the shoot tip just above a bud and trimming the bottom.

The best time for taking hardwood cuttings is from early autumn when the leaves drop to late winter.