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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] American Chestnuts
  • Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:44:18 -0700

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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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky

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