Hey, it's Jason here at Fraser Valley Rose farm. I thought today
I would do an update video on the hardwood cutting method
If you will remember I made a video on this a while back showing how I
dibbled the holes and place the hardwood cuttings in the ground. I did that activity in
October / November / December of last year and now it's April
So we're about halfway to the point where I can really assess these for their success
If you don't if you haven't seen that video yet, I'd suggest you look it up. I'll leave the
Link to that in the description to this video
So I want to show you what it looks like now that we're assessing whether they've succeeded or failed
Okay, so you can see here
I still have my cuttings and the rows here
And I have to say that first of all that the success or failure of these
Depends a lot on the variety, so there are some varieties, and I'll just point to this over here
where the whole variety failed and
There are other varieties like this one here where it looks like they all have a fairly good chance of succeeding now
How do I know they still have a chance of succeeding? the first thing is the color
That's actually pretty similar to the color that they were when I put them into the ground as dormant cuttings
I can see that the bud is still colored green, that there's no discoloration
Even further along here you can look on this one here now this one here
I'm actually not too confident in the color has maintained. its shot some new leaves here
They can see these ones are starting to wilt off and and that's not a great sign
So I don't know what's happening under ground on that one there
But I have a lot more confidence in this one here where the leaves came
and they're holding their own and that means to me very likely that there's some roots under the ground just as a
case in point of what it shows like when it's not working is like this one here and
Again the color tells the story so this one here green a little bit of fresh red or fresh growth on it is great
here
Brown black gray. Those are the colors of a dead
Cutting you can see here
That it's failed to make any roots at all it looks to me like it may have tried to callus
Early on but it failed to make roots and so that one is dead
so I'm going to throw that away now and
just to
Show you what it looks like when it does succeed
I got to take a little risk here, and I know it's April now, so I should be leaving these for a while yet
But to me it feels like this one's pulling back real hard
So I want to show you what it looks like when it tries to root so I'm gonna
giving it some real good space here with my trowel so I can try to take it all load as one piece and
leave roots intact
I'm gonna pull that
up there and
This is not fully rooted
But you can definitely see white calluses across the bottom here
And that's what it starts to look like when it's beginning to root, so I'm gonna put that one back in the ground
wait for a while longer and
By June or July of this year
I should be able to see
Which one's made it and which ones didn't now
This is my first year doing it in very large numbers
And it's also gonna be the first year that I take any records for it, so
These tags here tell me what varieties. I was trying it with and
Because it looks like the success and failure of it is
Varietal what I will be doing then is I'll be recording which ones
I had good success with and which ones I had poor success with to guide my decisions for upcoming years now
I will say one other thing which is that
I don't think that one year of a trial is enough to tell me whether I've succeeded or failed or whether the item the
The roses is good at taking hard when cuttings are poor at it. It could be that
I just took it at the wrong timing or the mother plant wasn't in great condition
So I'll give it a second year compare those results and then see for
Future years whether all continue taking hardwood cuttings from that variety. Thank you so much for watching on this update and
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