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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I've started all kinds of trees from what DH and the kidlets call "Mom's 
twigs."  I see an interesting tree and out comes the knife and home comes a 
twig.  I always carry some ziplocks with wet paper towels in them <g>

A lot of them are from trees and bushes which supposedly only are reliable 
at starting from seeds or grafting.

I stick them in some rooting compound and then stick them in a bucket with a 
50/50 vermiculite and sand mixture that is soggy and set them in a shady 
spot and more or less forget them.  Redwoods, oaks, madrone, English walnut, 
some kind of olive they had at SRJC, rhodies, holly, redbud, dogwood, those 
trees that look like evergreen willows (never can remember their names), 
willows (but they're easy, so they don't count <g>), and a bunch of others 
that Son #3 and I bonzai'd (we used to do them and sell them).

I usually use willow water to make the mixture soggy but I didn't on the 
Colonel Armstrong redwood and it's now 10' tall and will have to go in the 
ground pretty soon <g>

I used to use just vermiculite but I've found that the sand added in seems 
to encourage roots to spread instead of just seeming to be content to stick 
close to the "twig."  Seems to me that the spreading encourages more and 
more vigorous root growth.  Of course, YMMV <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] American Chestnuts


> Lynda wrote:
>
> > We've never had any problem roots cuttings.  We're going to try our
> > hand at grafting next.
> >
> > Lynda
>
> Are you speaking in general or specifically about chestnuts?  They are
> allegedly almost impossible to propagate from cuttings.  If you are
> talking chestnuts, please tell me exactly how you did it, and don't
> leave anything out!!
>
> Bev
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