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["Yorrba" <marillen@earthlink.net>]

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Hi folks.  At university, we got about 100% rooting with P. persica using 
mist beds.  I was hesitant to try 
rooting prunus without a mist bed, but Gianni inspired me to give a simpler 
method a try.  I used an 
alcohol/IBA dip and stuck the semi-hardwood cuttings in well-drained potting 
soil and bagged the whole 
arrangement with a large plastic bag (not clear- a white bag to reduce sun 
intensity and heat).  I put that 
contraption on a shady side of the yard and, like Gianni said, I misted it 
with a misting attachment on a hose 
periodically (continuous for 1st 24 hours, then every few days for the next 
few weeks).  I stuck 5 cuttings from 
a wild peach and 3 each from a Peento and an Indian Blood Cling.  I just 
transplanted the results:  2 wild 
peaches with >>>extensive<<< root systems (over 2 feet long and plentiful) 
and one IBC with a few roots, all 
less than 5 inches long.  One of the Peentos stayed leafy and green for 
months, but it was dead today.  

So the bag system can work, though no where nearly as well as a proper mist 
bed.  I don't know if the same 
procedure would work on P. tomentosa, the reference book I look at most often 
"Reference Manual of 
Woody Plant Propagation" by Dirr & Heuser recommends this... Softwood 
cuttings (though they say July- so 
depending on where you are this may be semi-hardwood); 8000 ppm IBA talc 
(good luck finding IBA talc at 
that concentration through normal channels) plus thiram in sand with mist 
(specifics on the mist aren't listed, 
but probably 5 second mistings every minute would work).  They got 100% 
rooting- 'bout like what we used to 
get with peach when we had a mist bed.  Del, if you really want to root a lot 
of cuttings, setting up a mist bed 
would be worth it.  If I remember right, the peach cuttings were done with 
much less IBA (2500 ppm), but I 
used a 5-second alcohol dip instead of talc, so the effective concentration 
may be essentially the same.  

Zone 7/ 8 and hopin' Winter and rain comes soon.

Yorrba

 On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 18:12:02 +0000, del stubbs wrote:

>Thanks Gianni and Tom..what I had used was the plastic dome over it all and 
>in a diffuse light situation. sure would be nice to do it without the 
>mister, but I'll get set up if necessary.  Yorba, the success of yours 
>Gianni mentioned....what specie?
>Del Stubbs
>ag zone 2/3
>Pinewood Forge
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