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["Bob Kelly" <bkelly66@bellsouth.net>]

LOL, Lucky.  I will second that poms are easy to root.  I stuck a bunch of 
hardwood cuttings late last fall in the shade of a nearby camellia bush and 
it appears most of them have rooted.

Bob Kelly
Aberdeen MS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky Pittman" <lpittman@murraystate.edu>
To: "'nafex mailing list at ibiblio'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] How do I root pomegranate cuttings?


> Steve,
> I've found poms very easy to root from dormant-collected cuttings.  I just
> 'wound' the base, by shaving off a little bark to expose cambium on one
> side(may or may not be necessary), dip in rooting hormone powder, and 
> stick
> in a pot of soilless potting mix, or a 50/50 mix of sand and peat - 
> whatever
> I've got handy.  Water as needed.
> Never needed a 'humidity chamber' of any sort.
> I rooted some mid-summer cuttings 45 years or so ago - can't recall what I
> did back then, but I imagine that I just dipped in Rootone and stuck them 
> in
> the sand/peat mix my dad had in his big azalea/camellia propagation bed in
> the shade of the two big cherrybark oaks in the back yard. Summer humidity
> levels in south Alabama were probably a pretty constant 150%, so no need 
> for
> a humidity chamber!
>
> Lucky
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Steven Covacci
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:47 PM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [nafex] How do I root pomegranate cuttings?
>
>
>
> I have a stick (8") of pomegranate.  I mixed loam soil, vermiculite, and
> peat moss in a consistantly-watered garden bed, after dipping the stick in
> rooting hormone, planting the stick half its lengths in the soil 
> substrate.
> I did not, so far, cover the stick, use parafilm, or anything - and it has
> not budded or put out roots: I took the stick out today and, because 
> moist,
> the burried portion is a faded shade of green (and it's alive, for sure -
> scratch test, etc.).
> Do I need to cover it with a jar or parafilm, and cover from the sun - or
> put this up and bring it inside to cover with a jar?
> My gooseberry and figs cuttings seem to be doing ok this way.
> Maybe my serviceberry cuttings aren't rooting either.
> Thanks,
> Steve; NJ
>
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