Once the cuttings are rooted next spring you can feed them then.

How To Root Cuttings From Various Shrubs, Bushes And Trees. Jul 06, Cuttings, but not seeds, provide us with a replication of the apples we got from the parent tree, so in this case especially, it makes sense to use them.

ChaChee, this will work for a number of different evergeen shrubs.

It has become the custom for people to go to a nursery to get young sapling fruit trees, but that can be very costly while propagating from cuttings is inexpensive, exciting, and entirely bushmulching.bar: Jonathon Engels. Jun 03, But, in a pinch, hardwood cuttings can be taken anytime of the year. The point of taking hardwood cuttings in non-growth periods is more to do with doing as little harm to the parent plant as possible. Hardwood cuttings are also only taken from deciduous shrubs, bushes and trees that lose their leaves every bushmulching.barted Reading Time: 4 mins.

Oct 16, Joy, in almost all cases plants grown from a cutting will remain true and identical the the parent plant. If you get them to root. Some things like Japanese maples and other ornamental trees are more difficult to root as cuttings.

Oct 14, I treated the cut end of the cutting with rooting hormone. Next I buried the cutting with two of the nodes in the sand inside of a thoroughly cleaned out yogurt cup. Recycled plastic containers are great for plant propagators! Then I waited while the cuttings rooted.

I kept the rooting mix wet since birch trees like the moisture.