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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

While dormant cuttings don't root well, it's often possible to force a small green shoot that can be rooted in a mist bench with bottom heat.  Green cuttings root very quickly, in as little as one to two weeks.
-Lon Rombough
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On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:03 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

Thanks for the answer Hal.  I actually figured this out yesterday by  
looking a lot closer at my kiwis that are already in the ground.  And  
after reading around the net, there seems to be a universal consensus  
that success rate for rooting dormant cuttings is typically very low.

I've scored the cuttings beneath the bottom node, doused in rooting  
hormone, put them on a propagation mat & cover the cuttings with  
plastic.  Now to figure out what the russian names mean.