Viburnum Hardwood Cuttings

In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes.

Viburnum hardwood cuttings.

If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings. The most critical thing for taking cuttings is to keep them properly moist. 2 3 nodes per cutting. Use clean sharp shears to trim a 4 to 6 inch cutting from the mother plant and keep it cool and moist until you re.

Plant cells are awakening and ready to grow which increases the chances of a quicker and more successful rooting. Autumn after leaves have fallen is the best time to take hardwood cuttings but success has been achieved with those taken in the dead of winter as well. Keep cutting humid until rooting has occurred. Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite.

Peel off the lower two. Richard jauron with iowa state university s department of horticulture suggests taking softwood cuttings in late may or early june. The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop. Start the seeds by warm stratifying mimicking a warm summer environment for 2 months.

There can be a lot of ways to do this. Cut off 3 to 5 inches from the end of a softwood branch ensuring the cutting includes at least two sets of two. Cut a segment about 4 to 6 inches using a sharp knife. Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them.

Viburnum shrubs propagate readily from stem cuttings. Peach viburnum and two varieties of hydrangea cuttings. How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1. Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique.

Viburnum respond well to propagating by means of softwood cuttings. Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone. For the novice spring is probably your best bet as to when to take cuttings from viburnum. Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth.

At that time use sharp clean pruners to take six inch long pencil diameter cuttings from vigorous shoots on the plants you want to propagate. Test the softwood to determine if the wood is ready by bending 6 inches of the end of a softwood branch.