Viburnum Hardwood Cuttings

Test the softwood to determine if the wood is ready by bending 6 inches of the end of a softwood branch.

Viburnum hardwood cuttings.

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. 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. Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique. Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth.

Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone. How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1. Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them. Viburnum respond well to propagating by means of softwood cuttings.

There can be a lot of ways to do this. Richard jauron with iowa state university s department of horticulture suggests taking softwood cuttings in late may or early june. Plant cells are awakening and ready to grow which increases the chances of a quicker and more successful rooting. 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.

Peel off the lower two. Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite. Start the seeds by warm stratifying mimicking a warm summer environment for 2 months. 2 3 nodes per cutting.

Cut a segment about 4 to 6 inches using a sharp knife. 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. Cut off 3 to 5 inches from the end of a softwood branch ensuring the cutting includes at least two sets of two. The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop.

In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes. Keep cutting humid until rooting has occurred. Viburnum shrubs propagate readily from stem cuttings. Deciduous viburnums usually root best from greenwood cuttings but will root from hardwood cuttings too.

For the novice spring is probably your best bet as to when to take cuttings from viburnum. The most critical thing for taking cuttings is to keep them properly moist.