Honeysuckle cuttings?

how do successfully take honeysuckle cuttings


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Honeysuckle cuttings?
You can take hard wood cuttings, semi-hardwood cuttings ,softwood cuttings, , or layer the honey suckle.





Hardwood cuttings,


Choose a plump well ripened wood of the current seasons growth, remove the soft tip growth and trim at the bottom immediatly below a bud. The length for honeysuckle should be about 4 inch.


In regions with moderate climates where very hard frosts are rare, you can insert the cuttings in a slit made with a spade in well ground and part filled with coarse sand. If the soil is poorly drained, however, dip your cutting in hormone rooting powder and insert in a mixture of peat and sand.





Semi-hardwood cuttings, Take terminal growth, cutting well into ripening wood. Trim below a node and remove any soft tip growth above a bud, leaving a finnished length of 3 inch . Alternativly take similar sized lateral shoots with a heel of old wood attached, by pulling gently from the plant; trim of the ragged tissue from the heel. With both types remove the lower pairs of leaves. Insert 4 or 5 cuttings around the sides of a 3 inch pot of a mixture of peat and sand, water well and cover with a clear plastic bag.





Softwood, Take a section of tip growth and trim below a node, remove the lower pairs of leaves, then dip the cut end in hormone rooting powder, shake off any excess and insert in a hole made with a small dibber or stick, in a peat and sand mixture, water well and cover with clear plastic bag.





Layering, Peg down lateral shoots about 6 inch from the end, stripping off the leaves if necessary; separate from parent plant when well rooted. Cutting or notching the lowest part of the stem helps induce rooting. Serpentine layering is a way of producing several plants from a single stem of many differant shrubs and climbers.





I hope this helps you


Good luck.
Reply:hi this is easy! just peg a stem the long shoots to the ground and soon you will have as many plants as you want, peg just behind a leaf and cover lightly
Reply:I prefer to take layered cuttings as they're easier. You find a good sized green stem and bend it down to the soil. Scratch away the skin or bark on an inch long section and dust it with hormnone rooting powder. (use a cheap paintbrush).


The bury that part about an inche deep in the soil and put a half brick on it to keep it firmly pressed down. Water regularly in dry weather. This time next year you can cut the new plant off the main plant and move it to the new spot.
Reply:Just allow the plant to become over grown. It will do the work for you, ie layering and pegging, and all you have to do is trim back your new plants next year before planting in new site. Yes, it is the lazy way to do it, but it does work and involves minimum effort!
Reply:You can take either softwood or hardwood cuttings from honeysuckle:





Softwood cuttings are prepared from soft, succulent, new growth of woody plants, just as it begins to harden (mature). Shoots are suitable for making softwood cuttings when they can be snapped easily when bent and when they still have a gradation of leaf size (oldest leaves are mature while newest leaves are still small). For most woody plants, this stage occurs in May, June, or July. The soft shoots are quite tender, and extra care must be taken to keep them from drying out. The extra effort pays off, because they root quickly.





Hardwood cuttings are taken from dormant, mature stems in late fall, winter, or early spring. Plants generally are fully dormant with no obvious signs of active growth. The wood is firm and does not bend easily. Hardwood cuttings are used most often for deciduous shrubs but can be used for many evergreens. Examples of plants propagated at the hardwood stage include forsythia, privet, fig, grape, and spirea.





Always take more cuttings than you think you will need.