Dogwood time?

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Whats a good time to collect dogwood cuttings. I pruned some mulberry yesterday and I m using the cuttings to propagate like dogwood. Might as well get some dogwood while I'm at it.

Speaking of dogwoods, what's that nice yellow to orange wood variety I see sometimes on swamp edges?

 

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Whats a good time to collect dogwood cuttings. I pruned some mulberry yesterday and I m using the cuttings to propagate like dogwood. Might as well get some dogwood while I'm at it.

Speaking of dogwoods, what's that nice yellow to orange wood variety I see sometimes on swamp edges?

We're going to be cutting wood tomorrow and Monday, it will be 22-30*. While cutting we'll also take gray and silky dogwood cuttings.

I plan to start the silky in water and the gray dipped in rooting hormone then in sphagnum and perlite.

My wife does garden starts on small three step rolling work carts. I'm going to tent one of them to make a mini greenhouse for the cuttings. I'll park it between the water heater and furnace under the heat pipes from our outside boiler to keep it warm and humid.

I'm hoping they will be able to leave the cart before my wife wants it back.

 

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Anytime between now and when leaves begin to emerge. I have even had luck with shaded ROD cuttings a week or two after those in full sun in the same area have begun leafing out.

That said, I think it is a little early for most of the Midwest unless you are keeping them potted in a controlled environment. If you want to collect now you will need to keep them moist, cool, and dark until it is closer to when they will actually root. Cutting and planting in the same day is best, and I think you can do that up until the majority begin leafing out.

 

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almost got lucky s few years go with toringo crabapple. The cuttings leafed out, kept them in indirect sun, then in late july gave them more sun, they died then.

Worth sealing the bottom cut if you plant right away. If you do seal and store in the fridge, should you cut the sealed bottom off? Rotts grow from there, or just the buried buds?

Did great 2 years ago with silky dogwood. Survived last year at camp, but winter was on the mild side. -20 the coldest this winter. See if they make another year. Zone 3b.

 

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You have success rooting mulberry cuttings?

For dogwoods, any time between now and May I've had success. I prefer to wait until March, and then I plant the best ones in a pot, and the rest go in a bucket of water.

The orange twigs are probably a type of willow. Check the buds.

 

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First year doing them. However, that's how the plants I bought were made. See the chunk from the year before, a shoot from the chunk, and roots coming from the chunk. Looked like they did 6 inch pieces a pinky wide. Pruning the tree, I got 2 or 3 pencil sized ones. Going to get them in pots in a few days.

 

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Nice. I'm about to prune some mulberry trees, so if I can propagate the cuttings that will be awesome.

 

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Got plenty of regular ones at home. These are northrup mulberry, they can handle zone 3. Original tree is 80ft tall and from the NY-canadian border.

Problem I will have is there both male and female mulberry trees needed to make viable seed.