Viburnum Hardwood Cuttings

Start the seeds by warm stratifying mimicking a warm summer environment for 2 months.

Viburnum hardwood cuttings.

Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone. Hardwood cutting after care. Deciduous viburnums usually root best from greenwood cuttings but will root from hardwood cuttings too. Cut a segment about 4 to 6 inches using a sharp knife.

The most critical thing for taking cuttings is to keep them properly moist. Use clean sharp shears to trim a 4 to 6 inch cutting from the mother plant and keep it cool and moist until you re. Viburnum respond well to propagating by means of softwood cuttings. How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1.

Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite. Richard jauron with iowa state university s department of horticulture suggests taking softwood cuttings in late may or early june. Autumn after leaves have fallen is the best time to take hardwood cuttings but success has been achieved with those taken in the dead of winter as well. Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth.

Peach viburnum and two varieties of hydrangea cuttings. Viburnum shrubs propagate readily from stem cuttings. Cut off 3 to 5 inches from the end of a softwood branch ensuring the cutting includes at least two sets of two. Plant cells are awakening and ready to grow which increases the chances of a quicker and more successful rooting.

Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them. Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique. There can be a lot of ways to do this. Carol klein shows you how to take hardwood cuttings from the native guelder rose viburnum opulus which makes a beautiful hedgerow shrub with glossy red berries in autumn.

At that time use sharp clean pruners to take six inch long pencil diameter cuttings from vigorous shoots on the plants you want to propagate. In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes. Keep cutting humid until rooting has occurred. 2 3 nodes per cutting.

Peel off the lower two. If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings.