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From Lynda, and btw, I actually have a few twigs of my own now...we 
will see if they survive the winter...(Bill, this is a good example of 
how long it takes me to actually do something you guys tell 
me..lol..over a year..)

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


> 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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