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summer_jackel) wrote2009-06-21 11:30 am
summer_jackel) wrote2009-06-21 11:30 am
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Maple project update
Sadly, both potato grafts died. All of the cuttings in willow water, glass jar of perlite and in a rockwool cube over perlite in a glass jar are thriving. All of the cuttings in rockwool cubes on tray of perlite began to wilt, so I moved most of them into glass jars. With the remaining four, I covered the rockwool with plastic and moved them to a shadier location.
Surprisingly, one very small clone that I thought was a throw-away is doing really well. It has lots of leaf nodes on a short branch, which are supposed to be helpfiul traits. Now I have the "root for the underdog" sentiment going for this one.
Supposedly, cuttings taken from lower in a plant are the strongest, because the lower in the plant, the more rooting chemistry will already be in its tissues, and the easier it can convert some of itself from shooting to rooting meristem tissues (the 'growing tip' cells in a plant, in either direction). Hoping that thia might help me, Istole borrowed a cut from the lower branches of the neighbor's fancy laceleaf. At least three of the six resulting clones are thriving, so I may have a laceleaf. I love any organism that can be made to grow a new one from what is essentially a severed limb.
My red cuts all came from the very top of the tree, because that's what needed to be pruned, but it may be meaningful that the healthiest cuts now are from the lowest side shoots of the part I took off.
Three week old cutting is doing ok, though its leaves are a little bit stressed. None have dried up for over a week, though. I may be imagining root buds, but I think I see them.
Surprisingly, one very small clone that I thought was a throw-away is doing really well. It has lots of leaf nodes on a short branch, which are supposed to be helpfiul traits. Now I have the "root for the underdog" sentiment going for this one.
Supposedly, cuttings taken from lower in a plant are the strongest, because the lower in the plant, the more rooting chemistry will already be in its tissues, and the easier it can convert some of itself from shooting to rooting meristem tissues (the 'growing tip' cells in a plant, in either direction). Hoping that thia might help me, I
My red cuts all came from the very top of the tree, because that's what needed to be pruned, but it may be meaningful that the healthiest cuts now are from the lowest side shoots of the part I took off.
Three week old cutting is doing ok, though its leaves are a little bit stressed. None have dried up for over a week, though. I may be imagining root buds, but I think I see them.