I've clipped a few small branches off my CHINESE CHERRY BLOSSOM TREE. I want to "make" more trees. How do I help those little branches make roots?? HELP!!
You can buy ROOT STARTER. You can find it at any nursery. I think i got some from Home Depot. Good Luck
E. D
What I do to root plants is put them in water,appr 1-2inches in a clear glass jar/vase what ever to stand up...near sunlight.Change the water daily.When there are good roots plant them in pots inside until they are strong and healthy..then plant outside when able.Let me know how this works for you...good luck..
S. B
Well different plants will root differently, but if this is one of the ones that WILL make roots, your best bet is to just stand it in a tall glass or vase type glass full of water, in the sun, but not so bright it will dehydrate it, and wait till it makes root shoots! You can also do the same type thing except in dirt sprout cups and just keep the cups about soupy and wait! With the sprout cups though you have to watch out that the stems don't rot off. It is tricky to get it just soupy enough for long enough that they make roots without rotting off! This is the perfect time of year, Spring, for them to set roots too. So if this IS a variety that will set roots, now is definitely the best time. And you definitely need them in sunlight- that helps encourage the root growth, but they don't need to 'bake' you know. They don't need tons of roots either before you set them in soil. Just 2 or 3 good looking 'nubs will really do it usually! And then just keep them moist, but not soupy or soggy after that. If it is NOT one that sets roots, grafting is an option, but you'll have to ask someone else about that. I've seen it done and read about it, but never done it myself.
They sound pretty! Wish I had some! Good Luck! T.
oh ps, I trimmed my ficus/fig tree once and everyone said I couldn't set roots off of it, but I did! Got some really healthy starts and they turned out to behealthy and beautiful! So it is DEFINITELY worth a try! Even if someone says it won't work! Ha!
Not familiar with this particular tree, but if it has actual 'woody' branches, you probably either need to 'graft' the branches into another (woody) bush/tree or get some of the new 'shoots' that come up from roots around the original tree/bush. Do some horticultural web searches using different 'search' words . . . Good luck!
