Miscanthus Giaganteus propagation from cuttings.
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Bill
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I picked up 600 rhizomes and 100 rhizome clusters today, managed to get 60 rhizomes clusters planted almost like planting seedlings.
I’ll be curious to see if you like the cluster vs. small rhizome as time goes on. Planting a rhizome seems easier but if the cluster gets you there faster? I cut and planted my own clusters last spring and they didn’t perform much better than a rhizome. BUT it was a drought year so I’m making any judgement based on that experiment.
scott44
5 year old buck +
I should have a good comparison between the two, I planted the clusters on the outside row and I am going to plant the rhizomes on the inside row.
cavey
5 year old buck +
Thats good to know, I have a place or two to add to the list of where to plant them.
Dukslayr
5 year old buck +
Out of curiosity has anyone planted screens of MG within a CRP contract (with the approval of the NRCS)? I’ve got a mile of road screen I am planning to do but only 3 years left on the CRP contract and haven’t broached the conversation with them. If I re enroll (should funds be available) I can hold out enough to do the screen. It only amounts to about 2-3 acres when doing the math. Just curious if anyone else has had that discussion. I assume it’s a no since it’s not a native plant.
Bill
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I bet your soils in TX have something to do with that. I have heavy clay and if water stands in/on it for very long I can’t get MG to grow.
Bill
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I doubt it. I wouldn’t tell them it’s not native. Try it’s an experiment to see if a biofuel grass will grow. Or maybe you want to shade out your fence rows so the trees can’t grow up in them
Dukslayr
5 year old buck +
Haha. Exactly. Nothing a little semantics can’t get fixed. Or it could show up? “No sir I don’t know where them big weeds in a row came from” I doubt it. I wouldn’t tell them it’s not native. Try it’s an experiment to see if a biofuel grass will grow. Or maybe you want to shade out your fence rows so the trees can’t grow up in them
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
I would think most people looking at it would think it is phragmites when seeing it, with only three years left on the contract it probably wont even head up by then.
Bill
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That’s very true. The first two years it doesn’t get big and nasty. Never thought about that.
My experience with cuttings was positive last year, but the only miscanthus that re-emerged this year was from rhizomes- none of last year’s cuttings, which made it to 10-15” in 2018, came back. I’m blaming the polar vortex. My rhizome started plants were very slow to come back, which I based on the wet, cool spring. I also had trouble eliminating the competition this spring , as I hardly had a dry day to spray during the dormant period.
Bill
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I'm sure the prolonged cold had something to do with it. Cuttings make roots at first that may not be as hardy as a thicker rhizome.
homegrownbucks
5 year old buck +
Couple relevant methods to propagate, thought they were interesting:
https://www.teagasc.ie/media/websit...ts_of_Miscanthus_giganteus_J_Finnan_CELUP.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12480
https://www.teagasc.ie/media/websit...ts_of_Miscanthus_giganteus_J_Finnan_CELUP.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12480
Bill
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That first link is interesting. We’ve been growing singles but never tried two nodes. I did once bend a stalk over and bury it but I left it attached to the mother plant. That did not work.
