We took some time this evening to stick elderberry cuttings along a seasonal stream on our property.
A natural gas pipeline went in here a couple years ago so I decided to take advantage of the disturbance along the edge.
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Great idea. Straight cuttings pushed directly into the soil? Let us know how well they do!
I’ve been busy guerrilla grafting onto “invasive” Bradford pears in rights of way around here.
Yep. Just cuttings pushed into the soil. It's fairly wet in that area so I hope they do well. I put in maybe 20 or 25.
With elderberry and most hardwood cuttings (currant, gooseberry, jostaberry) you want 2 "nodes" on your cutting. The node is the area where leaves and branches come out of the stem. They contain undifferentiated cells that can become stems if they are above ground or roots below.
I opened a slot in the soil so they weren't damaged when pushing them in.
Nice work on the guerilla grafting!
Never hit follow so fast.
We took some time about a month ago to stick elderberry cuttings along a seasonal stream on our property.
Here they are now!
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Nice. Hope they grow like weeds