I wish I had watched this video before I began trying to propagate cuttings. Would've saved me so much stress and heartache. Thank you! I love that you covered the part about heat/sunlight too. For anyone reading this comment, check out his video on cutting propagation mediums and his video on using sand to propagate cuttings. SO helpful!
"The more you make 'em work for it..." is my exact philosophy. I always say, if it needs to be pampered, it's not for me. Give me a plant that I can neglect and I'm happy! Thanks Mike, for all you do for us! You are good.
Mike: Good to see you are active, making these videos in spite of the serious injury you had. I hope your right hand is healing well and you will have full use of your right hand.
Hi Mike, thank you for all the great information. Hope you are mending well. You reminded me of a joke: A little five year old boy never uttered a word. His parents worried about him until one day, he said, "Mom, this cocoa is cold"....his overjoyed mother said, "OMG, you can talk! Why are you talking now?" The little boy said, "Well, up until now, everything was great"
I am so grateful I found your channel today. I'm new to this, but charging forward with a ton of cuttings I made recently. Now I'm hustling to get them out of the honey/water I've had them in for the past 3 days. Moving into sand, 2 cup method, in totes. I just processed 96 cuttings into sand. Probably have another 300 - 400 to go. Getting them into sand now.
Thanks Mike! Still struggling with these cuttings. 😪 No such luck yet... I tried the sand and Dansinol but I think it had too much heat under the dome, I should have cracked the lid open and given it some air like you said. And too much water 😓 right now in Hawaii, it's been really hot 🔥 too, I'm thinking the temperature may be too hot.??? Idk...But I'll keep trying, learning a lot through this whole process. Lol, looks really easy on RU-vid videos but dang, this rooting process is mind boggling. I started 🙏praying to God to help my plants root and survive!🤣🤣🤣 but ty for all your help! I'll keep trying!😁💪🤙🌈🌟
The fruit of your experiences shared here and thoughtfully intelligent working through them is nothing less than exactly what I need at this moment. Thank you!!!
When dealing with cuttings, _always_ water from the bottom. A quarter inch in the pot tray once a week is a good rule of thumb. The roots reach *down* towards the water, not up.
I have successfully propagated roses, hydrangeas, and rhododendrons here in the PNW. I say, forget the propagation frame and initially leave the planted cuttings in a shady location. There's plenty of humidity in the PNW. I gradually introduce the cuttings to AM sunlight from the east as the stems develop.
Thank you Mike!! I have some apple tree cuttings that I have been able to save from your guidance. I am new to fruit trees and hardwood cuttings but the explanation of why the water prop is so problematic was a light bulb moment for me and I am so happy I found this video while I still had choices!
Thank you for this video ! I'm currently in the middle of my first clear box propagation project. I only water at the beginning before putting my cuttings in the box and just rely on humidity to keep them moist. Every now and then i'll mist spray like you said :)
Finally, someone answered the million dollar question about mold. This was so helpful. I watched so many videos, none were as informative as this. Not one of the other videos addressed the "how to avoid mold" question.
Mulch is rotted wood. That is where the mold usually comes from. Container covers keeping the leaves constantly wet introduces mold. Pot bottoms soaking in water introduces mold.
Very important information I didn't realize. Wow, thank you so much. I enjoy your vids so much. I have learned so much from you and attribute my success to your knowledge and experience. I value the time you have dedicated to help others with their plant passions. Thank you so much.
Hi Mike, I recently signed up for your member’s area videos! They are great. However, since I’m still using the “tote method,” this video is SUPER HELPFUL and answered a lot of my questions. Thanks very much!
Thanks! I finally got my first rose cutting to that rooted (I think). At least it's started growing new leaves! I still lost two of them to mold (it was previous to this video but after watching your other prevent-mold video), and I tried spraying a mold/fungus killer, but that didn't work. I'm going to try these steps as soon as I can get new cuttings. Wish me luck! I love watching your rose-cuttings videos!
oh boy i was doing it all wrong..my lid is dark and i have too much water. watched this video and promptly went out and fixed all that.heres hoping these barbadoes cheries will root.i will NOT give up...i want more of these trees. thank you SIR!
You may have just saved my 600 + cuttings. I ordered from the mail all where dormant none where vibrant (most looked like they where very dry & not kept moist) all the videos i watched said "pour 6inches of water in a cup & stick them in. Or drown your medium & stick them in. Well i fallowed that advice & they looked better for about a week then they g0t as bad as when i received them now they look like they are about to die. The bottoms are all rotting off. I took your advice & now they are picking back up again. I know many will die but i hope most will make it.
Try treating the soil with diluted Hydrogen Peroxide mixing in with the water, it is good for the soil and keeps the mold away. Hydrogen Peroxide is also great for the roots of the plants.
@@erinrees532 Aloe vera juice is great for propergation, soak the bare roots or cuttings in Aloe vera juice for disinfection. You can also use cinnamon powder for rooting cuttings, but most succulents don't need it, except desert rose.
thank you for this... I was just looking at my Hydrangea cuttings yesterday and i'm starting to see mossy stuff thru the clear cups and was wondering what was going on! I think it's not enough airflow so went out and cracked the lid right after I saw your video. So I will let you know if this slows that down! I live in the Pacific Northwest also, Custer, WA up by the Canadian border on the west side of the state. thank you again for all your videos! I've learned so much!
I watched a bunch of videos for propagation but none of them showed how and where to store them, not to mention explain the reason behind it... I've watered my potting mix and cuttings once and will leave it as is in the tote, I had it out in the semi sun \ shade for a day and after watching this I have moved it under a tree next to the fences. For airflow, either put the wood on the opening of the tote or just drill 1-2 holes near the bottom and another 1-2 near the top of the tote. This provide airflow and vacuum as cold air comes in from the bottom and the hot air rises and goes out the top.
Lots of videos on what to do with the cuttings and how to overwinter them, just gotta look through the channel. Sounds like you've got a lot of good ideas there.
Hi Mike, Excellent video! I’ve propagated soft wood cuttings for many years and have had really good success! However, all of my cutting experience has been in the spring! I’m finding out that taking cuttings in the summer, is a whole new ball game! This video answered most of my questions. I live in Chico CA, and the summer temps can get into the low 100’s several days in a row. I have taken cuttings from azaleas, hydrangeas and an amazing 4’ high (max) oak leaf hydrangea that has blooms all over. I’m really excited about the oak leaf! I have my cuttings in totes, watched the amount of water in the soil when sticking. Is there any additional info you can give me to help in the success of my cuttings since I’m dealing with such high temps? Today is 101. It an go up to 110. I’m just hoping it’s not too hot here to do cuttings! I’ve already learned so much from you. Without your videos I never would have tried summer propagation! Love it! Thanks Mike!
I rooted a hydrangea cutting last year after following your vid instructions. It's in a 4 inch pot and has 4 little leaves, but it's not gotten any bigger since last fall. I stupidly only rooted this one cutting and I'd like to grow it big. Any suggestions? Also please put a plastic bag over your wounded hand while you are out around dirt.
Thanks. I just had to deal with this problem. I was going away for a few days, so I gave my cuttings some extra water before I left. Looks like i may have given them a bit too much!
i just subscribed, i have been watching you for awhile now and love how you explain things. this video was super helpful. it took me awhile before i started getting the hang of cuttings propagation. thanks mate see you at the next video
Guilty as charged!!! I keep thinking they can sit in water, they need water! I also think the word "moist" is too subjective. So many sites say keep the soil moist for your cuttings, I am beginning to think it should say barely damp! I have problems with a pothos even........root rot. I don't want to root in water because the roots will be adapted to water. Thank you!!!!! By the way, I'm an "old lady" so I'm gonna say what old ladies say,.....you're adorable! LOLOL
Hi Mike, I'm trying to propagate chilli cuttings in my grow tent, it's Springtime in NZ, Should I have a low light on them? I have them on heat mats and the vents opened up a little on the propagation chambers 😁
Hi Mike. Love your educational postings and had success following your instructions for Hydrangeas. Now my question is I want to propagate a Rhododendron but I don’t have a Rhododendron to do cuttings. I had purchased a large Rhododendron and paid a lot of money for it, but didn’t survive so I decided I wanted to do from cuttings. Can you tell me where to get some cuttings or do you sell cuttings or starters? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Any local nursery will sell rhododendrons in the spring, just pick up your first one and take a lot of cuttings from it in late august. Fertilize and water well through the summer so it produces good cutting material. Also, plant in a shady area and you should have more luck.
Wish I had watched this before trying to propagate some precious watermelon peperomia cuttings for the first time! I have mould growing 😓 3rd day in. I had them on a heat pad (winter here in Southern Hemisphere) in a mini greenhouse on the kitchen bench, had watered a lot after planting. It’s far too late to take back the watering, but I’ve taken off the heat pad and taken the lid completely off. Will see if that gets rid of the mould, hopefully these babies can be saved! Thank you. Any other advice?
Hello once more, Mike! Trying to come up with the best way to ask questions regarding your member's area videos, so I thought I'd start here. I realize that your primary area of interest is the propagation of rhododendrons, and, as a result, your member's videos primarily deal with how to use the propagation box for them. However, if you use it for, say, softwood cuttings, wouldn't things be quite different? For example, how long would those guys stay in the box? (Rhodies don't get stuck until the fall, so they have to root over the winter, correct?) I'd like to try to propagate rhododendrons, but right now as I'm learning, I'm trying things out with plants I already own. I can see the advantages of using the propagation box over my big collection of totes, but I'm trying to work out how this process changes when it's used for plants that are propagated as softwood cuttings in the spring, and also how to adapt things for my zone: 5a. (For example, you did mention in passing about how the freeze/thaw cycle in your area makes the bottom heat imperative.) I'm hoping you might be willing to squeeze in a video on this (in between all the other responsibilities...) I appreciate your passion greatly--especially the fact that you're sharing so much of this information just out of your desire that others may experience the same! Thank you!
You can use the frame for softwood cuttings as well. You'll just want to keep the bottom heat off through the summer. Softwood cuttings root so quickly that you could pot them up in time to start semi-hardwood cuttings in your frame. You can also make a larger frame and start softwood cuttings in 1/3 of it, and then semi-hardwood cuttings in 1/3, then turn the heat on when it gets cold and start hardwood cuttings in the last 1/3 of the frame. By the following spring you can be potting everything up and starting over again. Just use the bottom heat in conjunction with the weather (turn on in the fall and off in the spring). All types of cuttings will benefit from bottom heat in the winter. By the way, save some room for seeds and they will flourish in this frame. If you have more questions just ask. It's usually easier for me to see the question on Facebook messenger through my 'Kincaid's Nursery' page. Bear with me for awhile though as it takes ten times longer to type right now.
@@MikeKincaid79 - so nice of you to reply so quickly! I really don't want to inundate you with questions, since you're doing this out of the goodness of your heart...just one little followup question: I'm in Zone 5b and it often gets pretty cold here in southeastern WI. Would you leave the softwood cuttings in the frame all winter and pot them up in the spring? I've got a bunch of stuff in my totes that I'm going to pot up in August and heel them in my raised beds (which have hoop covers). With the frame and bottom heat, could I leave them in? And...I love the idea of putting seeds in there...I've been doing the winter sowing with milk jugs, LOL...
Thank you for all of your video's that I've watched and hopefully learned from!! My question is that living North of Boston, MA attempting several times to successfully grow rose cuttings with no luck. It's almost winter now and I want to know if I take some last rose cuttings and attempt to grow them in my finished basement, would a grow light help? I've left recessed lights "65W" on and will try to not water as much. I planted them in bottles and in container with bottles covering for condensation as you've advised. Thank you in advance!!
The leaves have probably fallen off by now and they are hardwood cuttings so you shouldn't need humidity at all. lighting and bottom heat is necessary and you may want to use an antifungal spray for the cuttings and soil.
Yea yeah make the roots seek out the water i tried that during the winter . Stuck fig cutting in my potted fig plants soil along side the plant in an unheated concrete floor building the plants did well the cuttings didn't even form white bumps . They didn't rot . I consider that you drench your cutting with your garden hose wand . I cant force myself to put that much water on any cuttings Remember your videos on rooting cutting in a sort of clear tote with a snap on lid. You had such large water or condensation bubbles on the lid that it was frightening . My clear tote the top lid only had tiny bubbles. I'm mean pin head size bubbles or drops . Thats been 4 years ago I figured I keep trying but no success yet . I'm now water rooting with aspirin and an aquarium bubbler bubbling away not using expensive fig cutting but home grown apple plum mulberry and persimmon . I figured it not the cutting its bob Brawley is the problem. The water bath rooting was all the rage on WTF FACEBOOK FIG SITE. the formula was z Camille tea in water with cuttings suspended through foam only the cut tips in the water. What does tea have to do with it . I don't know no bubbling in the static water Most success I have had is I got white bumps on a Apple cutting stuck in a half filled five gallon bucket of water out in the woods where the leafs haven't died after 5 weeks . I keep dusting with that worthless powdered rooting hormone I buy at Lowes that stuff is totally useless but for the antibacterial properties . I know that works good because I got a face flush smoking a cigarette after spilling that powder all over myself
@@MikeKincaid79 yeah I hear you on that . The over complicated part . All the buzz year before last on WTF fig site was "pro mix" whats pro mix? Oestmiss with one fungal in it. The fungus seller video (Mycroz) said the additive doesn't not promote root development nevertheless that was the magic mix till the following year when the same author proposed Camille tea water bath . Why that type of tea . I would think Green tea would be the "it" tea. There is a pile of sand on the concrete plants yard outside my door . It very appealing to me to stick some cutting into something free not fig , to valuable but I have raspberry mulberry and tons on black locust and mimosa tree. Any thing to to experiment with for the old Italian man technique
Super clear and concise ideas. Appreciate the content. Just had a couple random questions/observations. Any reason you are using totes with gaskets if you leave them propped open? Also I have always read that hardwood cuttings need cold to focus on root development vs top growth. I have had success leaving them exposed to the elements (or in a coldframe) here in 8b. Just curious if you're in a much colder zone than me. I always baby softwood/semi-hardwood cuttings with domes and heat but I love hardwood because they're so hands off.
Glad you like the videos! I use all kinds of totes, just have one with a gasket. You don't need a gasket, that tote just happens to have one. I live in the same zone, 8b, Western Washington State. I do the same thing for most hardwood cuttings. Just leave them outside and stick them when we get closer to spring. Depending on how difficult or easy they are to root I either use bottom heat or no bottom heat. Good luck and have fun!
Hey Mike I was just checking my cuttings today and my curiosity got the best of me, had to pull a few up and check them out and i was shocked when i saw that it appeared to be forming a ton of root nodes, but the majority of them were slightly above the medium for some reason? Some were in the dirt but they were doing tremendously better slightly above it. Theyre semi-hardwood cuttings
Hi mike, i really enjoy your way of explaining things. many thanks. i tried to plant rose cuttings and each time i get a lot of green little leaves , but soon enough the become blackish and die. when i pull the cutting no roots had formed. what could the reason ? i try to give them humidity and not much water. but each time i feel exited, they die? kindly advice? thanks
Hi, I like every of your videos. I have a little green house. I tried to propagate the roses and orange from cuttings and I put all of the cuttings in the little green house. My roses are not getting any leaves and turned dry and brown. Only 1 cutting rose is getting a new leave. I do water them every other day. I will stop watering them now after watching your videos. Can you help me figure out what happen to them. Thanks.
There are many factors that go into rooting cuttings and it would be tough for me to pin down the exact problem without seeing what you did. My suggestion is to keep learning and working with cuttings and you'll learn as you go. I answer a lot of questions throughout my videos. the more you learn and practice, the better you'll get.
I saw your video for the first time! What a wonderful change from the droning on and on of other people’s videos! Finally someone who shows their passion for growing plants. I am a beginner, and so perhaps you have a link about this problem that I can watch. I live in Northern Alberta, Canada. When I plant seeds 6 - 8 weeks indoors, why do I lose 1/2 of them to root rot? They just lay over and die! After seeing this video, more than likely I have over-watered them, right? Any other tips you can offer, I would SO appreciate! I am so frustrated planting them, just to watch them die! So sad! I know I am doing something wrong, or everything wrong! Please help! Thank you so much...I am off to find more of your links.😊👍
So glad you found me and enjoy the channel, Shelley! I try to keep the videos moving so people stay engaged. Sounds like too much moisture and heat are getting to your seedlings. Sometimes it's better to let them germinate outside in a protected area and let them germinate more slowly in a cooler environment. Also, if you're using a cover or lid for your germination, you don't need it. Seeds sprout with roots and are fully equipped to grow without a humidity dome.
Mike Kincaid Thank you so much! I am thoroughly enjoying your video’s! Now, I am trying to catch up with them! Lol! Learning so much! Most of the time, I am afraid of screwing up, but you have given me courage! I am going to try everything, it will be a learning experience that has been a long time coming! Again, Thank You so much!
But submerging the airlock bag inside a fridge also creates lots of moisture and it wouldn't need require for mold and wood rot to arise. So, what's the remedy for that problem?
@@MikeKincaid79 Apologies. When I looked up on treating mold on scion branches the algorithm recommended this video. So, I figured if storing plantings in the fridge was similar to storing, then how could one prevent moisture from entering inside the airlock sealed bag?
Amateur here. I was trying to do my lemon cuttings in fall. I had read to try it in water as well as wet soil. So much for humidity concerns lol. Each of my dozen cuttings have mold two weeks in. Does that mean they are goners?
Too much heat (Florida garage in the summer) and not enough airflow (sealed tote) we’re my problems. If you already have mold build up, can you still recover? I opened the tote, put it on covered balcony for max airflow and no direct sun. Am I better keeping it inside the house with controlled 74 F ? Or balcony will do? Wipe mold off and pray 🙏
I truly hope they make it for you but I can't beat death. Only God can do that, lol. Make sure it's not too wet and they get a little air flow. Also, not too much heat, keep them in shade but with plenty of overhead sky light.
HI Mike love your videos. Would you recommend watering cuttings that have rooted from the bottom or the top? I have my cuttings growing in an 8oz clear cups. I am currently watering them from the bottom and only let about the first two bottom inches of the dirt in the cup get saturated. So far they are doing pretty well but I am wondering if this is the best way to water or if i am not watering them enough. Once i notice that the soil is about to dry out I repeat the process.
Can i save my rose cuttings? There important to me i transported them from italy set and set them in sand. Leaves started growing now there wilting and black mold is growing all over them. I’m about a month in i put anti fungal spray on them ounce.
My cuttings getting dry upper part jasmine plant cutting I don’t know it’s not enough water getting it or something else please let me know dear if possible thanks 🙏 in advance
