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[Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com>]

I bought an OxyClone cloning machine that holds 20 cuttings. I think it was
$50. Tomatoes and basil root in less than a week and close to 100%. Roses
in winter rooted in about 3 weeks with about 25% success. I tried doing
dormant figs with no success. After around a month, the cuttings got
covered in slime after a month. I am not sure how often to change the
water. I am also not sure if this is any more successful than just a glass
of water. I did have two mulberries root in the cloner while a bunch in a
glass of water did not. You can call the one in the glass my control group
in the experiment. I look at the cloning machine as one tool I can use. In
some cases it will work best. In other cases I shoul use another technique.
-Mark Lee

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Robert Bruns <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark -
>
> Who sells the cloning machine?  I would like to try it on persimmons.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
>
> On 6/5/12, Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lucky,
> > I didn't know mulberries were difficult to root. I pruned my Morus alba
> > tree in March. I cut ten dormant sticks of last years growth for an
> > experiment. I purchased a cloning machine - a water pump circulates water
> > in a basin while cutting are held vertically as if planted in the water.
> 8
> > out of ten cuttings turned black and died. Two out of ten sprouted
> roots. I
> > considered this a failure and was doubting whether the cloning machine
> was
> > effective. Now hearing your lack of success, and my 20% success, maybe
> > there is something to this cloning machine. I also rooted an asian pear
> > cutting in the cloning machine with about 20% success.
> > -Mark Lee, Seattle
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Lucky Pittman
> > <lpittman@murraystate.edu>wrote:
> >
> >> If the 'top', grafted onto whatever rootstock, is withstanding your
> >> winters,
> >> I'd suspect that it would do fine on it's own roots - and, if you had a
> >> particularly bad winter that killed it back to the ground, any resulting
> >> re-growth would then be IE, instead of a generic M.alba(or whatever).
> >>
> >> LLP
> >>
> >> On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND
> >> Subject: Re: [nafex] Rooting Mulberry cuttings?
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