My neighbor has a beautiful plum tree, and I was wondering if there's a way to grow a tree from the cutting of my neighbors tree? Has anyone tried it?
If you did please share!
Planting A Tree From Cuttings
Hi there!
My neighbor has a beautiful plum tree, and I was wondering if there's a way to grow a tree from the cutting of my neighbors tree? Has anyone tried it?
If you did please share!
My neighbor has a beautiful plum tree, and I was wondering if there's a way to grow a tree from the cutting of my neighbors tree? Has anyone tried it?
If you did please share!
Hi Annalkona
Yes it's quite easy to grow a plum from a cutting.
First the cutting must be taken while the tree is fully dormant. So some time in the winter months.
Take a 10-15 inch pencil thick shoot from the tree, dip in a hardwood rooting compound, plant in pot of peat and sand mix compost. It should root after e few months.
You have to remember though that this tree will be on its own roots....so you will have a greatly reduced protection from soil pathogens attack on your tree and the there is no telling how strongly or weakly your tree is going to grow. These are the reasons that most propagation of all Top Fruit is done by grafting or budding onto known root stocks.
Good luck.
Yes it's quite easy to grow a plum from a cutting.
First the cutting must be taken while the tree is fully dormant. So some time in the winter months.
Take a 10-15 inch pencil thick shoot from the tree, dip in a hardwood rooting compound, plant in pot of peat and sand mix compost. It should root after e few months.
You have to remember though that this tree will be on its own roots....so you will have a greatly reduced protection from soil pathogens attack on your tree and the there is no telling how strongly or weakly your tree is going to grow. These are the reasons that most propagation of all Top Fruit is done by grafting or budding onto known root stocks.
Good luck.
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neohistory
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Imbedding a new thread in another, is a pretty good way to be missed. You might want to start this afresh.neohistory wrote:I'm also looking to do this, but with a crab apple tree. I suppose this is a general rule for cuttings you wish to take off most species of trees?
I have never tried crab by cutting. They grow so easily for me by seed.
Awesome info Jona, thanks.JONA wrote:Hi Annalkona
Yes it's quite easy to grow a plum from a cutting.
First the cutting must be taken while the tree is fully dormant. So some time in the winter months.
Take a 10-15 inch pencil thick shoot from the tree, dip in a hardwood rooting compound, plant in pot of peat and sand mix compost. It should root after e few months.
You have to remember though that this tree will be on its own roots....so you will have a greatly reduced protection from soil pathogens attack on your tree and the there is no telling how strongly or weakly your tree is going to grow. These are the reasons that most propagation of all Top Fruit is done by grafting or budding onto known root stocks.
Good luck.
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I doubt it. a manual of woody plant propagation I've got says, 'cuttings have proven virtually impossible to root, even from young trees' under the main 'Fraxinus' entry, then never mentions cuttings again for ash under the individual species entries.
evidently even doing root cuttings, which are a preferred method for some trees, wouldn't cut it.
evidently even doing root cuttings, which are a preferred method for some trees, wouldn't cut it.
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I hate to be dense... but getting back to the plum tree cutting, if you take the cuttings in mid winter, then plant them in early spring, what do you do with the cuttings in the meantime, for 3 or 4 or 5 months. I would like to try some trees or shrubs this way myself.
So do you take the cutting and then immediately put it in the peat, sand, compost pot and keep it outside? Or do you take cuttings and then let them sit around someplace til spring?
but getting back to the plum tree cutting, if you take the cuttings in mid winter, then plant them in early spring, what do you do with the cuttings in the meantime, for 3 or 4 or 5 months. I would like to try some trees or shrubs this way myself. So do you take the cutting and then immediately put it in the peat, sand, compost pot and keep it outside? Or do you take cuttings and then let them sit around someplace til spring?
