![]() If you shop at Amazon, please go through our site. Once they are dormant, they can be moved to pots or to their location in the yard. This usually happens by December or January timeframe. The cuttings need to stay in the rooting medium until they go dormant. This runs all day, but shuts totally off from 9 PM until 6 AM. ![]() I use the Galcon 8056 and have it programmed for 10 seconds on and 5 minutes off. ![]() The best way to do this is with a mist irrigation system that automatically comes on. You don’t want to soak the ground, but you do want to keep the leaves wet. These little cuttings will die if the leaves dry out. How To Propagate Nanking Cherry Prunus tomentosa Keep the Leaves Wet You do not want to saturate the soil where disease and pathogens will proliferate. Your planting medium should be something that drains freely and easily. Push them into your planting medium about two inches down. Now it is time to place the cuttings into the planting medium. Softwood cuttings does not require very concentrated rooting hormone, whereas hardwood cuttings require more concentrated solution. ![]() I use dip and grow liquid hormone because I only need the one product and I can mix it as strong as I like. Rooting Hormoneĭip the bottoms of the cuttings in rooting hormone. Leave two leafs at the top and remove the bottom leafs. I usually go with four for nanking cherry. Internodes are any place a branch or leaf comes out. Then cut the branches down so they have four internodes. Make the CutĬut the softwood branches off of the plant. This wood is usually just slightly a different color and last year’s wood just looks a little more worn and older. Softwood cuttings are this year’s growth that started in the spring. Softwood Cuttingsįor this post we are going to take softwood cuttings. This past summer I had a 75% success rate with softwood cuttings in a mist bed. Cuttings can be done with hardwood in the fall/winter or soft wood in the spring. Laying involves burying a portion of the tip or mid branch until it roots and then cutting it away from the main plant. For seeds, clean the pulp off the pit and stratify for 2-3 months. Propagation is done by seeds, layering, and cuttings. How To Propagate Nanking Cherry Prunus tomentosa The Basics of Propagation The fruit can be used for fresh eating, dried fruit, fruit leather, preserves, jams, jellies pies, tarts, and fruit juice. The stalk usually stays on the branch leaving an opening on the fruit that will cause it to leak juice. The fruit is very close to the stem on a very short stalk. You can also find some plants online that have yellow or pink fruit, as I just did (and purchased.) Since there are not a lot of named varieties in the US and most are propagated by seed, the flavors of the fruit seem to vary greatly. The red fruit is sweet and tart and taste like a cherry with a pit in the center. They are partially self-pollinating, but do better with another variety around. In mid-Spring the bush produces white or pink flowers that are fragrant and attract beneficial insects. It can be used as an ornamental, fruit producing shrub or as a wind break in a hedge row. The Nanking Bush Cherry, Prunus tomentosa, is another unique edible plant, in bush form, that is showy in the spring with flowers and in the summer with the bright red cherries clinging closely to the branches. How To Propagate Nanking Cherry Prunus tomentosa – The Fruit Nanking Bush Cherry Basics
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