I just wanted to put this out here so if someone else would like to try it. Hopefully your results will be similar to mine. It was simply an accident and honestly everything was mostly reconstructed from memory. I know that the cuttings were taken mid-August and rooted cuttings were repotted mid-October, the rest is best guess.
Last spring I purchased 6 Norton/Cynthiana vines, one died and I decided I wanted at least 2 more. I had read that they were difficult to start from cuttings but layered easily so I made two ground layers. The layers rooted and by the middle of August I decided I would transplant. Since the layered vines' top growth were larger than I thought the roots could easily support, the tops were pruned back to a foot or so.
I suspect that I am not alone but I find it difficult to simply discard pruning’s so I made 10 cuttings, each having 2-3 nodes. At the time I was busy and put the cuttings into a 16 oz solo cup of water and placed that in the refrigerator in my shop……. and promptly forgot about them. Two weeks later I opened the refrigerator and realized I needed to do something with those. There was only ½ cc of Dip in Grow left in the bottle so I added that to the 16 oz of water and left overnight. The next day I put three in sphagnum moss, two in 50/50 vermiculite/pearlite and one in Scott’s moisture control potting mix. By the middle of October 5 of six had rooted and are still alive, one of the ones in sphagnum moss did not root, it was also the smallest in diameter. None were as large as a pencil but were close.
The last four are in the refrigerator stored in damp sphagnum moss for trial in spring.
Take cuttings in mid August (semi-hardwood?)
Place in refrigerator for two weeks
Add ½ cc Dip & Grow rooting hormone in 14-16 oz water and soak for 24 hours
Plant in your favorite rooting medium.
This was purely accidental and I have no idea if the results will repeat, but I will repeat the trial again next year even though I currently have 5 more vines to find a place for.
Last spring I purchased 6 Norton/Cynthiana vines, one died and I decided I wanted at least 2 more. I had read that they were difficult to start from cuttings but layered easily so I made two ground layers. The layers rooted and by the middle of August I decided I would transplant. Since the layered vines' top growth were larger than I thought the roots could easily support, the tops were pruned back to a foot or so.
I suspect that I am not alone but I find it difficult to simply discard pruning’s so I made 10 cuttings, each having 2-3 nodes. At the time I was busy and put the cuttings into a 16 oz solo cup of water and placed that in the refrigerator in my shop……. and promptly forgot about them. Two weeks later I opened the refrigerator and realized I needed to do something with those. There was only ½ cc of Dip in Grow left in the bottle so I added that to the 16 oz of water and left overnight. The next day I put three in sphagnum moss, two in 50/50 vermiculite/pearlite and one in Scott’s moisture control potting mix. By the middle of October 5 of six had rooted and are still alive, one of the ones in sphagnum moss did not root, it was also the smallest in diameter. None were as large as a pencil but were close.
The last four are in the refrigerator stored in damp sphagnum moss for trial in spring.
Take cuttings in mid August (semi-hardwood?)
Place in refrigerator for two weeks
Add ½ cc Dip & Grow rooting hormone in 14-16 oz water and soak for 24 hours
Plant in your favorite rooting medium.
This was purely accidental and I have no idea if the results will repeat, but I will repeat the trial again next year even though I currently have 5 more vines to find a place for.
