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hERE'S MY BRUGS
TELL ME HOW YOU CUT YOURS TO WINTER OVER.zone 5

Dodge u have to bring them inside. For the winter preferrably in a sunny window. Ikd love to have a cutting off. Yours if that is okay. You can email me its easier to answer on my cell phone. ?

Gosh dodge, so pretty!!!

[quote=angelblossom]Dodge u have to bring them inside. For the winter preferrably in a sunny window. Ikd love to have a cutting off. Yours if that is okay. You can email me its easier to answer on my cell phone. ? [/quote

Sure will....how do i cut i?
Thanks bof...............hows life there?
DODGE

Cut a piece from the top about 6 inches long make sure the piece is fairly thick, it really doesn't matter where u cut it yours will grow another branch my experience is thicker cuttings root better. Than thinner pieces_ you can cut several pieces for ur self and place in jars of water to root.

Thanks angelblossom,

Dont laugh , i was given 13 pieces last fall. ONly 3 lived. Some in water an some in soil,
Right now it is full of buds an blooms.
THe other a triple is only half the size an not doing so well.
3rd one ......someone sent me the y .......this didnt bloom at all.

dodge

The brug cuttings do alot better if you add perioxide to the water. Don't keep them in the water until they have roots but put them in soil when you see small white nubs forming. And you should change the water often. I had a lot of success starting cuttings above the 'Y' in the perioxide water.

Thanks Mocha
I will go add proxide.

I kept mine all winter last year in water.. zone 3

dodge

Just a little peroxide. Like two caps for a couple gallons.

They die down but, come up from the roots here in Z7 most of the time but, sometimes not so I always take spares. Last year I cut them up like firewood with a chainsaw because frost was coming that night and had to get a lot of plants ready quickly. I put them in a bucket with just a little water in the bottom and kept above freezing in the basement.

I still have two sitting in a bucket since last fall behind my storage building.

I must of goofed.
Put some of the peach in water, 2 weeks ago. Rotted??????

The new green limbs or what is brown? The green pieces never root for me like this but, the brown older wood put out roots in just a few days. Green pieces I root in slightly damp dirt (also spritzed with water/little peroxide).

These are cuttings I took last fall but, never planted. They are still alive..WE never planted them and just left the bucket behind the storage building.


Also they seem to root near the surface...as what is below the roots has long rotted (standing on a rotted stilt). Originally I just a had a few inches of water in the bucket but, it rained into it after we left them outside.

I do this in the basement with just a florescent light. They have to be above freezing.