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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

I also had good luck rooting poms. Mine died outdoors (eastern MA) but all 
the sticks I put in a clean pot with potting soil rooted.
-- 
Ginda

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Bob Kelly <bkelly66@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>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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