Taking Hardwood Cuttings

Cut off any unripened green growth at the tips.

Taking hardwood cuttings.

Cut straight across at the base below a bud or. Cut each branch below the bud so. Hardwood cuttings grown on outdoors select vigorous healthy shoots that have grown in the current year remove the soft tip growth cut into sections 15 30cm 6in 1ft long cutting cleanly above a bud at the top with a sloping cut to shed water and. Select strong healthy straight woody shoots.

How to take hardwood cuttings. Take cuttings that are close to pencil thickness from current season s growth it will be mature and woody not soft and green. Take your hardwood cuttings in mid autumn after the leaves fall. Removing the shoot tip.

Prepare each cutting by removing the shoot tip just above a bud and trimming the bottom. Look for well ripened pencil thick shoots and remove them horizontally below a node leaf joint or bud. The point of taking hardwood cuttings in non growth periods is more to do with doing as little harm to the parent plant as possible. If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings.

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. While you can plant hardwood cuttings in the. Cutting your dormant plant 1. Hardwood cuttings are typically taken in early spring or early winter when the plant is not actively growing.

The best time for taking hardwood cuttings is from early autumn when the leaves drop to late winter. Take hardwood cuttings at the end of the growing season from autumn through to spring when the stems are fully ripened. The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop. Removing a pencil thick stem.

Branches that grew poorly over the past growing.