Hi, it's Jason here from Fraser Valley Rose farm today
I'm making a video on doing hardwood cuttings
as to distinguish them from the semi hardwood cuttings that I made a video on a couple of months ago
These ones - the main difference is that they take a different timeline
So the semi hardwood cuttings that I put into the greenhouse earlier on
They have leaves on there and are in active growth
I'd need them to root relatively quickly so I put a mist on them
I keep them at warmer temperatures, and I expect them to root within the range of 4 to 6 weeks
Hardwood cuttings are a completely different animal. They look similar
They might be of a similar length, but I don't put them in with leaves on, they're not an active growth
They're semi dormant and they sit there
slowly callusing or rooting over the course of
Six to eight months, so I won't be taking these things out of the ground
Until next year in the mid summer to almost fall region where I expect them to be rooted
I'll show you how to do that on the rose here. The first thing that you start with is a sharp set of clippers and
I've just sharpened those and make sure that they are
Also cleaned between varieties the disinfectant stops me from spreading disease from rose to rose
So if you want to come in here for a second, I'll show you
That on the rose here the main thing for hardwood cuttings is that I'm choosing this year's growth so
This stem here this big long stem
You see this is all from this season I can cut it way back down lower at this and get a good
Four foot section of stem or three foot section of stem so I'm going to throw that down, and I'm gonna cut another one here
Now what I'm not going to cut from is not last year's growth so if you look at this stem here
This is
Very woody very dark - a new branch is coming out of it so if I took a cutting off of this
For cutting I'm not sure that that would be successful. I don't think there's as many active buds on there. It's older wood
It's gonna have a harder time rooting. I've
By experience done this year's growth and I've done previous year's growth
Both literature and my experience shows me that older growth doesn't do as well as a cutting
this year's. this is a nice long section here. That is
This year's growth you can see it doesn't have branches coming out of it
It's still sort of a green color not all woody down there has relatively fresh buds
And I showed you on the other video how to determine if it's the right firmness
You shouldn't be able to bend this if it's really really soft like that. It's probably not going to be appropriate as a hardwood cutting
I'll take one more cutting here off of this year's growth
There you go
One more there, and then I'm gonna take those into the greenhouse
And I'll show you how to stick them for for for rooting
This is where I've decided to do my hardwood cuttings this year
It's actually inside of a greenhouse structure, but I should say right away. That's not the way that you have to do it
It's just for me. It was convenient
It was a spot that I had well-prepared already, and I can control the moisture really well in here
What I've done is
Then look back here, and if you want to get a close-up a little bit here
I've I've buried a whole bunch of hardwood cuttings already and what I may have here is somewhere in the range of 600 stuck
Already/ what I want to show you is how I'm preparing the space for it, okay
I'm doing this a little differently than I see other people do it
Normally when they're doing hardwood cuttings. You'll see them dig a trench
Stick the cuttings down and then backfill around them just with some sharp sand across the bottom or that kind of thing
This is a well-prepared bed, and I'm doing it just to make it easy for myself
I'm going to use the pitchfork here for dibbling instead so
Just following the pattern that I used previously let's stick this down in low
Spin it around to get some large dibble holes where I'm gonna stick the roses
And I'd like to do one more row just to follow the pattern
And what this does for me is it gives me nice straight lines and
There's six times on
the pitchfork here
I use the first one as you can see along there use the first one for labeling and then put of a row of five
Cuttings down beside it so the next thing I'm gonna do
Is just show you what an appropriate cutting looks like
So from the stems I took in the garden this variety by the way is
Duchess of Portland or Portlandica, it's a Portland rose
And I don't need any leaves so if I'm going to this top portion here
I don't need any of those leaves or leaf petioles on it
so I'm actually going to cut that section off because it's a little bit thin and
on this here, you're looking for a section that might be between five and seven inches. six inches would be fine and
You can see the top cut I made there is just above a node that red
Bud you see there is one node on the Rose the bottom cut I'm gonna make is also going to be just below a node
So making the cut there, and that would be an appropriate stem now when you see this on other instructions
You'll sometimes see people take an angled cut across the top
I've got no problem with that. the main reason for it is to identify the top of the cutting from the bottom of the cutting
Which when I do it I can actually just tell because of the direction that the bud is coming out of the leaf scar
And plus because I'm gonna be sticking this right away
I won't have to remember that so I'm going to take that and stick it in the ground here
You can see that. I put it in
About two-thirds to three-quarters of the way all the way buried into the ground and I got to keep on going on this throw in
for more so
That's one
Taking up a little section of stem that didn't have any nodes on it go with a second one
Starting to get a little bit thick
Usually you want to look em for a cutting that's no more than say it pencils width or a little bit thicker. That's fine
So I got four there including the one I've already buried
And I'm gonna take one more here just
to finish the row
They don't have to be exactly the same length you see they are
similar
Anyway, and I'm gonna go ahead and stick those now
Okay one more step here is
Don't forget to label it right away
I'm sticking that into the sixth tine hole that I used there and
Just give them a little push like that and now those are buried
After finishing all that just to make sure that the soil
Is nice and moist I may throw a splash of water on it
and then I leave these in the ground and the schedule on these is I won't be worrying about these all the
Way through the winter it gets cold out here. They're pretty resilient
I won't be worrying about these in the early spring. I may as it gets too warmer in here over the summer
I may pare it a little bit of watering just because these aren't outside
They're not gonna get rain so I'll be watering this
Just to keep it moist and I'll be checking for roots sort of mid late summer next year
Thank you for watching if you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments below