Viburnum Hardwood Cuttings

Test the softwood to determine if the wood is ready by bending 6 inches of the end of a softwood branch.

Viburnum hardwood cuttings.

For the novice spring is probably your best bet as to when to take cuttings from viburnum. 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. Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone.

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. 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.

If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings. Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique. How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1. Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them.

In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes. The most critical thing for taking cuttings is to keep them properly moist. Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite. 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.

There can be a lot of ways to do this. Cut a segment about 4 to 6 inches using a sharp knife. Deciduous viburnums usually root best from greenwood cuttings but will root from hardwood cuttings too. Peel off the lower two.

Cut off 3 to 5 inches from the end of a softwood branch ensuring the cutting includes at least two sets of two. Peach viburnum and two varieties of hydrangea cuttings. Carol klein shows you how to take hardwood cuttings from the native guelder rose viburnum opulus which makes a beautiful hedgerow shrub with glossy red berries in autumn. Viburnum respond well to propagating by means of softwood cuttings.

Viburnum shrubs propagate readily from stem cuttings. Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth.