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  • From: Robert Bruns <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Rooting Mulberry cuttings?
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:30:06 -0400

Mark -

Who sells the cloning machine? I would like to try it on persimmons.

Thanks,

Fred

On 6/5/12, Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lucky,
> I didn't know mulberries were difficult to root. I pruned my Morus alba
> tree in March. I cut ten dormant sticks of last years growth for an
> experiment. I purchased a cloning machine - a water pump circulates water
> in a basin while cutting are held vertically as if planted in the water. 8
> out of ten cuttings turned black and died. Two out of ten sprouted roots. I
> considered this a failure and was doubting whether the cloning machine was
> effective. Now hearing your lack of success, and my 20% success, maybe
> there is something to this cloning machine. I also rooted an asian pear
> cutting in the cloning machine with about 20% success.
> -Mark Lee, Seattle
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Lucky Pittman
> <lpittman@murraystate.edu>wrote:
>
>> If the 'top', grafted onto whatever rootstock, is withstanding your
>> winters,
>> I'd suspect that it would do fine on it's own roots - and, if you had a
>> particularly bad winter that killed it back to the ground, any resulting
>> re-growth would then be IE, instead of a generic M.alba(or whatever).
>>
>> LLP
>>
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