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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

I take 1ft,  pencil-thick arguta cuttings end of May & stick them in 
peat & just leave them outside with the rest of my houseplants.  I get 
about 60% success rate & by the end of the summer I've got gallon sized 
plants ready to plant in the spring.  In other words nothing special - 
no rooting hormone, no greenhouse, no mist bench.  Now if only 
kolomikta would behave like this.  ~mIEKAL

For years I thought these particular plants were a. kolomikta because 
that's the way they were labeled from Bachman's Nursery in Minneapolis. 
 I was bragging to Kevin B, from this list about how vigorous my 
kolomikta plants were. He took one look & set me straight.


On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 10:34 PM, Hal Love wrote:

> Dormant cuttings can be rooted with bottom heat if you keep the tops
> cold, but I have not had great success with it. The easiest and almost
> 100% successful method I use is leaf bud cuttings. I cut green to
> semi-green shoots, and then divide into one inch sections of stem with
> one bud with the petiole and leaf attached. Each cutting is dipped in
> rooting hormone and placed in potting soil in a seed starting tray. The
> stem and bud are placed about 1/2 to 1 inch deep, with the leaf 
> sticking
> out. The trays are placed under a fluorescent light at room 
> temperature.
> I leave the cover on until shoots just emerge, then remove the top for 
> a
> few days before transplanting. Roots usually appear in just a few days,
> and shoots emerge in about two weeks.
>
> I have done this with cuttings taken at any time the plant is actively
> growing right up to just before the leaves drop in fall. I have done
> this with a number of species and all root easily except for the
> kolomiktas.
>
> Hal