Dogwood cuttings
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Bill
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I used to get mine from Bigrock but I don’t see them on the site any longer.
this guy has 25 for $25 but I know nothing about this outfit https://waldenheightsnursery.com/product/red-osier-dogwood-unrooted-cuttings/
you may have time to harvest your own if you can find a donor bush.
this guy has 25 for $25 but I know nothing about this outfit https://waldenheightsnursery.com/product/red-osier-dogwood-unrooted-cuttings/
you may have time to harvest your own if you can find a donor bush.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
local NRCS do tree orders every year and dogwood is a common one on the list. They might be sold out but it sure wouldnt hurt to check
Just drive around and cut some from a road ditch for free. I would cut them this time of year and pot them immediately (usually 3-4 cuttings per pot) and if the soil stays moist most will survive.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
That's what I did last year. I just cut them them off and stuck them into the ground last spring. I think i had about 25% survive. I maybe had 250 cuttings and spent about 2 hours total between cutting them and shoving them into the soil in random spots.
This year I want to cut and dip into root gel and then pour some 10-10-10 fertilizer and water mixed up where I plant them. Hope to do close to 1,000 cuttings and spend around a day messing with it. I plan to do it EARLY and plant them in clumps along travel corridors. Plan to try and replicate the areas where it worked last year. The road ditches by me are full of them.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
I put in between 250-300 cuttings in on Easter Sunday in North Central MN. 80% of them dipped in root gel. The other 20% were used as a check. I still want to do another 500 or so along travel corridors. Sure doesn't take long to put 100 of these into the ground. I lined a low funnel area around my waterhole with them. I dont like to do more than 150 at a time so I can get them to water quickly. I made 2 trips like this.
cavey
5 year old buck +
Free Free Free.... just find a ditch near you and cut some.... NW Wisconsin has an unlimited supply ... no need to dip just cut some 1 foot or a little longer sticks and stick them 3/4 of the way in the ground - 3 buds in 2 buds out. In just a little time you can have hundreds of cuttings.... free free free....
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
I just pulled up to a road ditch that I know the power company is gonna mow off this summer and started cutting stuff out of a HUGE clump of dogwoods.
I had about 25% or a little better survival last year and it was the first time trying it. Could have been higher then that, but it wasnt 50%. I did not have any root gel last year. Last year was experimental. I stuck them in different soil types to see what I would get. Definitely did better next to low depressions with water around. Try to avoid hard sticky clay underneath. I think the largest cuttings had a difficult time surviving. I wanted to cut them tall enough so they would be above the undergrowth in the woods. I would be pretty happy to get to 75% survival this year going into the fall. There must be a balance between the size of the cutting, and the amount of water that it can soak up to try and keep it alive. Too big and they die to easy. Too small and I have to wait a couple years to see what develops. Its so fast doing the bigger ones that that I dont care that 100% arent surviving.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Well, the power company already came through and obliterated a major source for my dogwood cuttings and my white spruce transplants. Good thing I pretty much have everything I wanted. They mowed a lot of acres in our area. As those ditches regrow they turn into nice little browse plots for the deer. I was still able to grab another 200 dogwood cuttings yesterday afternoon and I transplanted another 60 white spruce into the area yesterday, I just had to look a little harder.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Here WAS one of my spruce sources. There is still a few hundred left on the other side of the road, but most of them are either too big or too small right now. I must have transplanted 500 trees to our area from that ditch. Nothing more than grabbing them and tearing them out and then planting with a shovel. No water, nothing special. 90-95% survival after 1 year. Power company wants them gone. They were thick in that ditch for about 1/2 mile.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
I had very low success establishing ROD from cuttings stuck in the ground.
I have had better luck leaving them in a bucket of water until they form roots. Then i pot the ones that form roots and throw away the ones that don't. The following year I plant them out as established bushes with large root systems.
Rit
5 year old buck +
I have had better success when soaking the cuttings they are surviving but the growth has been underwhelming. I protect most of them. This year I planted rooted cuttings 25 of them. They were cheap but eventually I’d like to just use my own. Where to you keep the potted cuttings during the winter?
