Hey again, it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm here with another propagation video this time
I'm talking about hydrangeas and how to root hydrangea cuttings fast and easy with the emphasis on the fast
Because hydrangeas are pretty easy anyway
and do them from multiple techniques so you could even root it in a glass of water if you wanted to but I found
the fastest method
by trial and error was the
Softwood tip cuttings and let me show you how I arrived at that about. Oh seven weeks ago
I started making a video on how to do 4 easy plants from semi hardwood cuttings
That was the emphasis of the video. You can look that one up. I'll throw a link up here
But at the time that I did it what I found is that the hydrangeas actually lagged behind the other ones
Using the semi hardwood technique I they were easy. They were successful. This is the result
So this is from a cutting taken seven weeks ago and they are now rooting to the side of the pot
But it took them a long time and they're just now putting up their foliage after that cutting
So what I decided to do was try it out by
Softwood tip cuttings and let me show you the difference between those I've shown you this before
on other videos
But there's a difference between the semi hardwood section of wood and the softwood section
Semi hardwood is from the same year of growth. It's from the st
This year's growth, but it's actually somewhat ripened. It started to harden off. It's still bendy like this. It's not woody
It's not impossible to bend it won't snap in your hands
But it has sort of a gentle bend in it. The section at the top here is
Actually, very soft very bendy even quite easy to move around with that's the softwood section and previously I shied away
From using that section because it actually dries out really really quickly at the cutting stage
But I'd heard also that it roots relatively quickly compared to other methods
So I decided to put that on trial, so let's do a little
cut here
and
Strip off some of those bottom leaves and
You can see
that this is a softwood cutting and
I'm just gonna trim off a few leaves here
Or parts of leaves here just to reduce the leaf surface
And that's the kind of cutting I used in this method the results were outstanding
This is the tray that I did. I did it on that video about four weeks ago that I post it and
out of the
Nineteen that I stuck nineteen cuttings all nineteen are beautifully rooted now and let me actually show you
so these are gonna have to be separated anyway, and
This one here is just beautiful look at all the white roots that you can see along the base of that cutting
so that's fantastic and that happened over the course of
Just four weeks now so it shaved a lot of time off the cutting. Plus this already has a growing tip on it
It's already in foliage. It's gonna be quicker to come around than the other ones
So then the question I have is or the question you might have for me is well, why does it matter?
Why would it be important to do it quicker?
Rather than just do it successfully and the answer is for me because I run a small farm
The more time I spend on the cutting and the more space I spend on the cutting the more expensive it is for me
so it's quit if it's if it's
Faster and it gets done in a smaller amount of space. I can get it into a pot
I can get it ready for sale quicker. I
Spent less of my time on it and I made more money doing that
You might not be in it for the profit motive. That's fine
I still think it's better
Results-wise to get the cutting done quicker so you can get it rooting faster and you can get better blooms
bigger plants for the following year now
I have one other thing to say in this video and I'm changing topics on sort of a 90 degree angle
I promised that I would do a section on
Thornless blackberries, I promised in another video on thornless blackberries that I would show how to do the propagation of that
So I'll take you out to the field real quick and show you how to choose the material to do thornless blackberries
All right, just a few late. BlackBerry is still hanging on to the bush here, but you can see that you can identify
the fruiting sections of the wood fairly easily and
This is the only trick that I have to tell you about propagating thornless blackberries. Is that if you choose the wood
From a branch that is fruiting
It is much less likely to make a successful cutting
Whereas if you take one of these new shoots these new branches that never fruit it this year's growth
that fresh new vegetative growth is
Way more likely to make a proper cutting for you
It's it's going to put on roots much much faster resume growth much much faster
And you know when I take cuttings from the sections that are fruiting they struggle they stall they don't come up
Quickly if at all, so just be sure to choose the fresh new growth the vegetative growth stage
Okay, and once you've selected the right material for the blackberries, the cutting method is exactly the same as it is for roses
so if you prefer back to my complete video on how to take cuttings of roses there is
Really? No difference in what I'm doing here. You're taking a section with three or four nodes on it. You're sticking it
into the pot
so I go two or three per and it has a little bit of leaf on the top you place it on there mist and
You should start looking for callus about three weeks later. This is a full tray here again, you know how I am about being
Economical for space and trying to get it done as quick as possible. This one here is
eighteen pots with at least two per pot so I'm gonna be able to do 36
Thornless blackberry cuttings right from this little section here
if you have any questions at all about the methods that I've used in this video or
Any propagation methods by cutting happy to take those from you, please drop those comments and questions below the video and thanks for watching