Plant Propagation - Plugs or Pans?? Which should you use?? 

Thanks for a great video Craig! Tremendous amounts of plants that you now have growing! Lots of hard work! It’s amazing what you have done in less than a year!

I just love you and your daughter’s videos. I’ve been following for quite awhile you both bring a lot to the table as far as getting a nursery going, but very honest about it needing a lot of your time and devotion. Thank you so much for posting the videos and I wish you the best of luck with another great season at the new nursery. Going to try propagation this year from your videos it will bring a lot to our landscape. Thanks again, Bruce

Nursery looks great, Savvy Dirt Farmer 🌱🤗 Thank you for sharing your knowledge on both propagation methods. I'm trying both at present too. "Make hay in the summer!" Yep, up and outside from the heat by 7 to get'er done before the zone 7 B heat of Southern OK.😎 Thanks again for sharing! p.s. as I am listening to your video this morning, my husband, getting his coffee, asks, "Who's that?" My reply, "The Savvy Dirt Farmer who got me into all of this!🌱🌱🌱💚😂🤣👍 Laura of GA got us into putting up a small greenhouse in 2022. Now I am retired and following the Backyard Nursery dream! Thank you to you and your family 💚💚💚🌱 Best quote ever, "Treat it like a business." SDF. 🌱🌱👍😎

I'm from Andalusia Alabama. I know exactly what you're saying! Lol thank you so much for sharing 😊

Good advice. Thanks for all you do for us SDF!

Thanks for all your advise from success and failures. I’ve started our backyard nursery similar to how your family started yours. Trying to get our misting system right where it keeps starters moist but not soggy is first key step I’m trying to dial in correctly. Once I get that set with the good plug media I’ve got now I will feel confident to propogate like crazy. Appreciate your sharing and may God continue to bless your efforts 🙏

Love your videos. I've got several varieties of hydrangeas in pots....yup, need to go take some cuttings. Thanks for the reminder!

Another great video! Lots of great information. I just stuck my first batch of Limelight. I did not do plugs. Maybe this batch will be forgiving when I pot them up. Can’t wait until you open back up.

I'm learning a bunch from your videos! Thanks!

Thank you so much! You always make me want to continu growing my little backyard nursery.

Timing is perfect for me! Fixing to try some propagation! I think I will try a tub! Thanks for all the information!

Thank you!!!

Excellent

Glad to see you’re gonna start propagating gardenias

I have used you method for hydrangeas and am having very good results.

Thank you for showing the comparison. This morning I followed your hosta propagation method! I’ll be ‘making hay’ tomorrow with emerald greens via the dishpan method. Thanks Craig! Eric

Timely video. I just got in some limelight liners and they are super leggy like the one you showed. I was wondering how far down I could/should cut them to take cuttings and to trim them for next year - Now I know!! I'll probably be able to easily get about 50 cuttings from my 10 liners.

You are so engaging and encouraging. Do not have a misting system yet but I will try in a clear tub with lid. It should also work. God bless!

One thing your nursery has that most others don't and that is such pretty property surrounding the nursery and that out of City Air.

I would guess the plugs need more attention to watering. Each little cup has more area to dry out. The dish tray might be less care for someone like me that’s not home every day to check on watering.

Thanks for sharing, Craig! I have all of my limelights in trays and I know they're already rooted. Should I let them grow out for this Summer and wait for them to go dormant before re-potting them? From now on, I will propagate in trays...the finished plugs in your video look so healthy!!

Thank you! Going to try the sand method for my Texas Sage cuttings, I tried once and they rotted so on to round two!

Thanks for the hydrangea propagation videos. Had a family member who needed to go to a nursing home, but she had a lot of weigela and hydrangeas on her property so I took cuttings June 18 and they are growing well in trays now, just watered them twice daily in potting soil. Repotting those cuttings today, they have rooted well. Slowly building inventory and looking for discount perennials nearby in SW WI so I can do what you're doing. Getting my kids involved and starting our journey just like you guys did a few years back. Enjoying the process. Thank you.

You make me want to go out and buy a hydrangea just so I can do this!❤

I appreciate the content you share. Good teaching going on. What evergreens do you propagate besides the Emerald Green and Green Giant arborvitae? Have you tried the living hedge idea for propagating the arborvitae? Many thanks.

Great info, your operation is looking great! You inspire me. Do you have a link to the Wallerin pencil?

Thanks for the great content! So inspirational! Which wholesaler do you use for evergreen plugs?

Thanks very much for all of your information. Am I allowed to propagate patented hydrengeas like Limelight?

Thank you so much! Can you recommend any other wholesalers other than the one you mentioned in the plant patent video? I can’t create an account with them until I become a “business” and I’m still learning/hobbling at this stage. Thank you!

So interesting. Thank you. Could you use the cuttings at the end of fall when cutting back your hydrangeas to propagate starts? Thank you

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I have a question for you, do you think it’s possible to propagate many of these evergreens and/or hydrangeas under indoor grow lights as long as I continue to mimic the appropriate light cycle, and climate…???

Thank you do I see bayberry plants behind you toward the end of the video?

If I don't have a misting system like you've described can I use a plastic cover to keep them moist? Will that work?

Hi thank you for another informational video! Can you please tell me if this would work with lilacs? Thank you 😁

I propagated a dishpan of Weigela cuttings in sand + hardwood bark under mist June 9. I think every one rooted! They have a lot of top growth and some are even blooming!!! I didn’t know they would bloom twice! My question about the Weigela is, should I pot them up now or just leave them till they put on growth in the spring? Also, I have probably 30 or so hydrangea that rooted from cuttings. They are getting quite leggy. Should I prune them now? Thanks as always.

Hello, you mentioned slow release fertalizer for the arborvitae cutings. When would you add the fertalizer in the propagation process around what month or season?

May I ask you please Do you have a video on Cypress propagation that is in front of you in this video. Thanks in advance.

Do you add slow release fertilizer to your plugs?

Hello why failed hydrangea paniculata from hardwood cuttings most y in green house of end februari

hey...the white dishpan method...with all those green giants in it....did you drill holes in the bottom of it?? how many, ... you would probably have needed to use a drill....just wondering.... could not hear it in the video or maybe you did not say...I want to try the dishpan method..let me know please...thanks

Do you put drain holes in the dishpan?

Are you drilling holes in the bottom of those dish-pan tubs?

If you use any specific nursery pots would you add them to your Amazon store? I'm mostly just growing for myself but would like to give away to friends and family (maybe a few people on FB to recoup the cost of things) but all the lost of affordable 100 6" pots have such terrible reviews. Have you ever used them? Do they make it through a season or more? I've been seed starting mostly, so you can get potentially 100 plants from each packet and I'd love to be able to pot them up instead of sticking them out in clumps where only a few survive from the clump because of overcrowding.

What medium mix do you use?

Where do you buy your flower pots?

I have had 200 hydrangea this is the second summer. Haven't sold a one! So frustrating

"Wallerin'" :) So you don't use rooting hormones on hydrangeas?

When you mention the patent has ran out on anything. How do you find out when the plant patent has expired on any given plant(s)?

Can I root lantana ?

When you say sand, is that like sand box sand or sand from my yard? Sorry to be so ignorant about sand🥴