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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

Someone has asked me for cuttings of my gooseberries, and I'd like to give 
them, but everything I read says that the best time to take cuttings is in 
autumn, before the leaves fall. How likely would it be that cuttings taken 
now, in winter would succeed? Has anyone here tried it?

Melissa

--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:

> From: Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] gooseberry seeds
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 9:22 PM
> Best results with cuttings, at least
> here in Oregon, come when you take the cuttings in the fall
> before all the leaves are off.  Six inch cuttings, put
> about 4-5 inches into sand in a protected locale will sprout
> out in spring and be ready to set out.