Viburnum Hardwood Cuttings

Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite.

Viburnum hardwood cuttings.

Viburnum respond well to propagating by means of softwood cuttings. Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them. 2 3 nodes per cutting. Hardwood cutting after care.

Richard jauron with iowa state university s department of horticulture suggests taking softwood cuttings in late may or early june. Test the softwood to determine if the wood is ready by bending 6 inches of the end of a softwood branch. Deciduous viburnums usually root best from greenwood cuttings but will root from hardwood cuttings too. Peach viburnum and two varieties of hydrangea cuttings.

Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth. Peel off the lower two. How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1. Keep cutting humid until rooting has occurred.

In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes. Start the seeds by warm stratifying mimicking a warm summer environment for 2 months. Plant cells are awakening and ready to grow which increases the chances of a quicker and more successful rooting. For the novice spring is probably your best bet as to when to take cuttings from viburnum.

The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop. Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone. There can be a lot of ways to do this. 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.

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. If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings. Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique. 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.

Viburnum shrubs propagate readily from stem cuttings. 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.