Blueberry Propagation, Easy and from waste. 

Far too many "content" videos out there.. thank you for actual experience being shared. Your wisdom is most appreciated.

I cut the tops flat and the bottoms at and angle. Easily can distinguish how to stick. Planning on trying blueberries. I do elderberries cutting. Luck with and without cloning hormones. Thanks for quick easy instructions without crazy loud music. LOL

This guy is brilliant! I'm a school teacher and he nails it with visual examples and clear explanations. So easy to follow. Thank you very much. Regards from Mary I live in the South Island of New Zealand.

This is brilliant. I had no idea. While I only need so many blueberry bushes, I have four acres that I hope to plant with assorted surplus berries for the various birds. I call it my wildlife refuge.

Amen brother. Too many people on RU-vid act like they are professionals

First time here. This vid was Fantastic! Clear and informative. I learned a lot! Nice job. Thanks.

Thank you for teaching us from experience.

Thank you. I just bought 2 different bushes, Jelly Bean and Peach Sorbet. I'll look forward to propagating both with this information.

thank you, lots of important fine details that many have left out, as some species are very easy to propagate, many others like fruits are more difficult. I will make a special spot just for the cuttings when I am back in Ecuador, all I do remember as a child was a deep trench with sand in it.

Excellent presentation. Clear and to the point.

Nicely detailed information thanks Mr spokes man

I recently moved to a house with blueberries and have no experience whatsoever with plants, trees, or anything green. This video says everything I needed to know about my blueberries. I was picking some and by accident I cut a branch 😢 Thank you, Flanagan for an amazing explanation. I'm going to try and see if I can make more out of it.

Excellent video with good details. The amount of time is what most don’t realize. We prefer suckers for propagating, but cuttings might be the only option in some situations or for larger numbers.

I pruned a currant this winter and stuck it's branches in the ground and now have nine currant plants!

Have you ever tried adding bottom heat to blueberry cuttings, and leaving them outside in the shade and cool late winter/spring weather? The thing I’ve heard is the warmth on the root system promotes callusing and getting a start on root development while the leaf buds above ground, in cooler air, stay dormant. The reasoning is that there could be better success because the leaves and their moisture requirement needs will be more easily satisfied by a better established root system. That said, I have only one year of trying blueberry cuttings in an inert material like you show here, but without any bottom heat or greenhouse warmth. So I have little experience and results. I’m just searching for what works and maybe you’ll have feedback or try something new and be able to report more useful results than I can now. Thanks! It was encouraging to see your successes.

Great video guidance I will attempt to use your ideas. We’ll see how it goes.

Really good video! Thanks.

I've done it with a sand/peat mix and had success. My two tips are many cuttings for a better chance of a win and for me in zone 4, don't leave them outside for the first winter. I have an unheated walkout basement that is still cold but not freezing it catches daylight and acts like a greenhouse in the spring. My cuttings get a mild winter so they can go doormat but not like outside where they freeze so hard and die.

Louie CK is homesteading?! Awesome!

They're easier to separate if you submerge the roots in water aswell

Great tips, thanks for sharing

If you live in a wet climate like Wales/UK then you don't need pots or any of this stuff. Just snip as advised and stick them in the ground in situ. I stick in 3 for each spot and come back a year later to snip the weaker one or two. I get about 80% success rate. The ground never dries out here except in mid summer sometimes and you won't get mould issues in open ground IME, so no need for nutrient free substrate, hormones, watering/aftercare or pots.

Thanks for the valuable information! I started 38 cuttings per your procedure in January. They started leafing out in 2 - 3 weeks. Now 50% have wilted and died. I've used fur bark mulch and watered 2 - 3 times a day. Kept indoors and out of direct sunlight. Am I over watering??? Help.

At about 4:20 that one stem looks like a pencil. Not sure it's gonna root. But this is very informative. Thanks

Great video! Have you ever tried airlayering blueberries?

Great video, but I'm confused about mediums. Obviously blueberries need ericacious soil. Does the rooting medium also need to be acidic. What about when you transplant to their own pots? Is that the time to make the soil acidic?

Thanky you for the video! Do you think peat moss would work as a rooting medium or would it be retaining too much moisture?

Thank you for making this video. I don't know how much success I'll have starting clippings in August but if it doesn't work January is coming and it's cheap to try. Is August the kiss of death for clippings? I'm almost 60 now but I still remember horticulture class in school.

If you have larger property, how do you get them growing in the wild?

Do I have to keep cuttings wet through the winter here in Tennessee?

What type of sand do you recommend using? Thanks!

have you tried horizaontel rooting w bllueberries? i have done this with some trees and it works well as it produces a bigger root base faster. not sure about blueberries tho

after they root do still keep in the shade or put them in the sun? When can you put in sun?

But what grow zone is this in? What about snow?

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Can you use hay instead of fir bark?

How would perlite work as a medium? Or possibly a perlite- vermiculite combo?

Can we root them in peat moss? what season is better to propagate? thanks

I live in a very old climate Yet we do have blue berry plants growing here I wanted to know how to keep these plants over winter when starting in pots as you mentioned, Anything else one should do to keep them alive, how to protect them etc. I have to use a sand soil, and can mix with a peat soil if need be, as there is not much else here.

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So, how long it takes to get berries from cuttings? 2 years?

RU-vid knows i bought blueberry plants at the store and knows what i want to do with them, scary how it knows

thoughts on mushroom compost as rooting medium? (i have 500lbs of it! and would love to use it)

Shave the skin off the two nodes, before dipping into hormone. Better root growth, due to the hidden buds beneath the cambium.

Can you use wood chips?

where do I get the fir bark???

You may do better with nutrient rich soil that has been inoculated with beneficial bacterias... You can buy mycorrhizal that will eat up all those nutrients & create a food delivery system for your plants. That seems like a better option than using soil with no value at all...but I have never tried it, just thinking out loud, really

Thanks for this advice. Nice explanation. I’ll likely try these methods. In return, here’s a little advice for you: look at the actual camera, not the image of yourself, while you’re filming. It will make for much better footage and the viewer will connect more with you. The way you’re doing it now is distracting and makes it harder to trust what you’re saying.

Not sure why u should start of dissing other youtubers. Bit of a turn off

You can use strait peat moss as the medium, I’m lazy just used an old plastic wheelbarrow that had a cracked bottom filled it with peat moss and put in green cuttings when they about 18 months I planted them out.

WARNING/UPDATE! do not use mushroom or cow manure with blueberries! It raises the pH to fatal levels. Prob other berries too

8:23 good strategy, I do almost the exact same thing when propagating everything from peaches to bougainvillea to dragon fruit in Southern California; very different plants but quite similar in concept and execution. My only suggestion would be to thoroughly soak the medium and to *not* water as soon as you put the cuttings in. It's likely that you'll wash much of the rooting hormone off; I let the moisture from the medium do the work. You can also cut a 2-liter bottle or similar and create a humidity dome, that seems to help as well. I typically don't water again until there's some signs of rooting and growth. There's no sense in watering much or at all until roots form because the cuttings have little to no way of taking up water without roots

I was doing grape vines like that, sized and cut the same. I found the most success with starting grape vines was in dirt where I composted oak leaves every year. Started with a two foot high pile of leaves then in the spring incorporated the leaves in the soil and planted a hedgerow of vine cuttings -- close enough in a row like a colonial fort wall.

thanks for helping me out. I have been trying this out and didn't know everything you are talking about. I will update my process and hopefully have greater success

Im learning most fruit bushes work this way. Passive income anyone 😊

Thanks for the blueberry trimming and rooting cuttings info. I found it very helpful. I used concrete sand and just water it daily. I have the cuttings in my bedroom at this time because it's March in zone 4 WI. But in May I will put them outside, probably under a mist and possibly under shade cloth until July/Aug. Thank you so much! I bought 3yr plants online from a farm in NJ and they have done great. I planted mine in half concrete sand and half peat moss in grow bags and drag them to a covered porch every winter. I also fertilize with slow release pelletized fertilizer similar to what you used, only 2 Tbsp/plant and around not on the roots. We also put a drip line on the blueberries and they did great.

PS. A Stem of Willow (Tree) in warm Water : makes a Willow Bark Tea or Homemade Rooting Medium. 👍 I also leave Willow Whips in a Bucket of Water, for the Catkins to Grow and provide some real early Pollen for my Bees. Nice. 😎 I don't grow those baby Willow (Rooted Stem) Whips on as Trees. But you could. . . Willow Trees can get really BIG ! . . . I let them polllen flower and Leaf up, right in that "Rooting" Cuttings Bucket. Here in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Rooted all Sorts of things in that thing.) That Bucket stays the same way for Years !Season in, Seasons out. . . 🙃

This is the exact information I've been looking for! Specifically about when to repot. So glad I found your video! I rooted cuttings a couple years ago from pruned branches, and most of them took. My biggest mistake was having them in the sun, and the soil dried out. This year, I did some in 2 pots of sand. They are sitting on the north side of my greenhouse where they get mostly shade.

I agree that many people are just making RU-vid . But after many tries and only a few successes I am still trying. . My only success was using just plain old sand and I place them in a shade under a leaky fawset. My patience came from forgetting that I put them there.

Just found your channel. I was planning on propagating my blueberries this year but was planning on after harvest this year (now March in zone 8b). I can’t wait to try.

I love the taste of blueberries, if only they grow in tropical areas.

Good to know. I trimmed my blueberries winter and I thought the canes were too wimpy. I guess they were just right!! TFS

Everybody says you need to use rooting hormone but I took trimmings from my uncles house and stuck them on the ground cut at an angle four of them took now they are big enough I can cut root pieces. They fruited the same season. I planted them even know they were still very small.

You remind me so much of a young Lemmy Kilmister , of Motor Head the band {but without the moles}. 100% it's a compliment. Now back to watching the video 😁.

Being a RU-vid channel producer myself I get your point of to many people acting like they are experts just to get views. However what many people don’t understand is many of us are simply documenting our experiences and sharing with those who care to follow. I have been given down the road by people several times. These people did not know who we were and what we were about. They just jumped to conclusions and most times its clear they didn’t watch the video. We never claim to be experts. People who follow us just enjoy watching/following the journey. By the way thanks for your video. Excellent job and I subscribed!! Terry

Best info on blueberry propagating I've seen. Thank you.

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Nice video. I'll give blueberries another shot when I do my pruning. I think blueberry cuttings are a bit more temperamental than some others (figs, currants, elderberry), but I'm inspired to try again.

Excellent video with exact information.I have a question->My place is pretty close to the sea, about 2.600 feet above the sea level,on the north/northeast facing slope of a mountain.We have (in general) wet climate,with long hot summers and short-ish/windy/wet harsh winters with lots of snow.Not good for leaving cuttings outside. Ice and wind don't help. So, I take rose tree/pomegranate tree/olive tree cuttings in the winter, late November,after prunning and keep the cuttings in a plastic bag in the fridge.Our freezing/windy months are mostly February and March with night time temperatures dropping under 25F very frequently.Towards the end of March/beginning April, I take the cuttings off the fridge and put them in a bucket of water for about 2-3 weeks.Than I plant them in individual pots in loose soil/bark with a clear plastic bottle on top of them and keep them in a place with lots of light,but not much straight sun on them.Soil always moist,of course.I had pretty good success. You think that I should apply the same strategy with blueberry cuttings?Can I keep them in the fridge for months??Should I first clean the cuttings from their fruit buds?

The Boss of blueberries.

Thank you so much for this video!! Im helping my MIL prune her bushes today and I’ll be propagating from them! My hope is to be able to sell from my plants every spring at the farmers market!

Perfect timing! Heading out to take cuttings as soon as the temp is above 32.

Great video thanks for sharing your knowledge! Will definitely give this a try!

Thank you so much. You are a great teacher! I love your video. Very helpful for beginners. :)

Hi, Great video. Some people doing this cover there propagation buckets. I see that you do not. I believe that they water it once, cover it and leave it on the north side. Do you have a comment?

Could I use pine bark? It is what is available.

Great video! Thank you. My daughter's returning from Florida and wants me start her some plants for her new house. I think ill definitely do blueberries for her.

Dude thanks!!! You are now my clone blueberries bushes hero.

Patience ...... aaaaargh! 😂

Very nice and informative video. One suggestion: Can you include in each gardening video the Hardiness Zone you are operating in? Otherwise excellent video. Thanks

Great video, thank you so much, i dont have for bark, would pine bark or pine needles work in your opinion? Or peat moss? thank you

Tip : Which way Up !?! Re Cut "Cane" or "Stem.". . . If you always cut the Top Cuts at a 45 Degree Angle (Rain runs off, is a bonus effect.) Thats your "Top" of the "Cutting". And do all bottom Cuts straight Across (Flat based.) Thats your "Bottom" of your Cutting. Works with any Plant matter. Easy to remember as you Prune and Tidy your Plants. As sources of cuttings material that might get all mixed up (!) Look for that Cut, to identify which way is the correct way. . . Simples. 😎

Why do you prune blueberry?

will the cuttings grow true? like if you had a specific variety of blueberry... does the cutting make that same fruit?

Question: I have a very old blueberry patch (30+ years) that produces tons of giant blueberries every year. There is a complete carpet of new growth underneath the large bushes sprouting from the mature root system . Can I cut these new stem sprouts to propagate and does it have to be in January? Thank you for the great video.

change the written content to a different color when against white or light sky it can not be seen. besides that very nice video.

Keeping them in shade outdoors in zone 7 winter is okay? Also seen some folks use a humidity dome. Is that required? Thanks!

Best video on the market, Hands down. I have watched quite a few.

When is the best time of the year to do this? I always thought have to do Propogate in July by watching some other youtubers. Nice tutorial BTW... Okay so it's January. Should have watched your entire video before commenting. :)

I rooted plum tree cuttings with honey.

Isbthis the same for uk? Anyone?

Thank u I have tryed two times Nothing happened but no one has explained it like u and no one said a year Going to try ur way thanks

I agree that if you want to propagate blueberries you need to watch this video. Our friend does need some help with the camera and production. What rooting hormone is best and still affordable ?

Use fish fertilizer for growing out sensitive cuttings

I came across your wonderful video at the end of April. I live in Southern Ontario, Canada, zone 6a. My blueberries are just about to open their blossoms. I have some green, straight 1-year old shoots on TORO, my most favorite variety, which I would like to try propagating first, before trying to propagate my SUPERIOR or PATRIOT. Should I take a soft wood cutting now, or wait until I see full-sized leaves? Can I use 100% peat moss instead of sand?

I wanted to do this to my berries that produce really well. I watched a lot of videos but as you said “none of them had done it before” anyway I did do it but I used the tops of the canes. Are they a lost cause? Or can I save them somehow? I may be too late to start over this year. Wish I would have seen your video sooner.

I found the video very helpful. I have not yet been successful with blueberries. I have sand on hand and I will be trying again.

Where do you get fine fir bark? Is it made up of a specific tree called Fir? I live in West Virignia, can I find this tree here in the woods and cut some of it down to make sawdust? Can I use just a Regular Pine tree cutdown and made into sawdust?

I’m in Wisconsin, what’s a good time to do this?

D blueberry not need a certain type of soil