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Subject: Re: [nafex] How do I root pomegranate cuttings?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:34:43 -0500
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
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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