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Update: Blueberry Cuttings – 9 wks

Its not looking good. I’ve lost all of the cuttings that were in the plastic bag. The ones in the float tray are right behind them. I have to wonder if they didn’t put out leaves too soon. The only ones still kicking are the ones under the jars and they just started leafing out a few weeks ago.

I noticed that the thicker stemmed cuttings seemed to last the longest of the ones that have died so far. It makes sense that they would have more stored energy than the thinner ones. I’ll be interested to see if the few remaining ones do anything.

The 3 gallon pots of small starts I divided out of the 5 gallon buckets all seem to be doing great except for one. If all goes well with them I’ll end up with 12 plants where I had 6 and 2 of those are buckets that I held off dividing this time. I’ll do those late next winter/early spring.

Willows

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Almost 2 weeks ago (or was it 3??) I took some cuttings from my weeping willow and curly willow 4′ tall treelets. Last night I potted up many of the weeping willow. These cuttings were quite small in diameter. I’ve had great luck in the past rooting larger diameter cuttings. I wanted to see how the smaller ones would do. They were just starting to break dormancy when I took the cuttings. The weeping willow started out as a 12″ mid-late summer cutting I took year before last.

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Here are the ones left to pot up. These had to wait as I ran out of soil.

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The curly willow cuttings are the same size and were taken at the same time but they seem to be running a bit behind the weeping willows.

Not sure what I am going to do with these. I have a friend to take a couple and I will plant a few of the curly willows myself. Anyone local to Cincinnati want a rooted willow cutting?