I plucked it, covered in rooting hormone powder and planted in a pot with soil/compost from an onion bed.
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Do you think it will root in time for winter? What if i bring it inside for an extra month or two avoiding frosty nights/mornings. Thanks
Here in NC, apple trees grow a lot of roots in the Winter during dormancy.
It will likely live, but it would have been fine to wait.
All of my tries like that have failed. It doesn’t have any roots so its not going to make it.
I agree with Scott that it will probably fail like that, but unlike Scott I have had success rooting rootless suckers at that point before, most fail though.
To do it the way I have had success with would be to cut the top down to a quarter inch above the second to bottom leaf, rip off half of both the bottom leaves and put something over it that lets light through to act as a humidity dome and put the whole thing up against the wall on the north side of a building.
We get about a 60% take on m111 cutting in most years. However this year this heat has really kill a lot of them off. So far I have got 6 of 8 G.969 cuttings well rooted now. But they were all 3/8 caliper so lots of energy stored in them is the reason???
Agreed with what @KS_razerback said, trim that top off and cut the remaining leaves in half. All those leaves are just transpiring away the moisture of the cutting.
What time of year do you take cutting?
