I have some ideas for trying to increase cutting success. Have any of you tried any of these? Do any of you have other tips or ideas? I’m mostly interested in investing the success rate of jujube cuttings.
My thought was to use some willow mulch on top of the soil. My other thought was to water with willow and thyme tea. Willow to inhibit scabbing before roots can grow and thyme to inhibit fungal growth.
I have good success with soaking the majority of a cutting below the top two nodes in willow tea a day or so before moving them to an inclosed high humidity container that I give morning sun about 2 hours until I am von Vince’s I see steady growth. Takes about 2-3 weeks after soaking. My moist medium is usually River sand/compost 50:50
Dennis
Kent wa
No tricks, just graft on the branch that points up. I had great success wth jujube grafting this year. Only 1 or 2 failed out of so many, maybe 20.
I was hoping to have the stickers be the same tree, so if I want I could let one grow up and digit up to start now plants. That’s why I didn’t want to go the grafted route
You mean suckers? I pulled mine up and threw them away. I mean the branch sticks up. I think the grafter Jsacura or someone like that said in his video on grafting.
Since this is brainstorming…
Maybe try air layering, but use shredded willow to wrap the branches in place of other media.
Cutting success…anybody trying softwood cuttings of apple rootstocks.?
(No luck using dormant cuttings)
I’ve had success with pear rootstock cuttings, kept them in water for a week or two figuring out what to do with them, just decided to stick them in some potting soil indoors, no humidity dome under a grow light with warm soil and warm above no idea what rootstock it is - pear was planted in 2016. I’ve dug up semi-dwarf apple rootstock suckers and cut them off from the trunk during dormancy, most of those are in small pots, guess I’ll try my first time grafting with them later this winter 