Hello everyone this is Richard with first-class Gardens welcome into our
grow bench and I've got another exciting video for you guys today I got a lot of
positive feedback on a rose and potato video so we're going to try a lemon tree
today one regret I do have on that video that I did not show you guys the
cinnamon or honey method to to rooting a cutting so we're going to do the
all-natural way and we're going to do the chemical way with the clone X that
way you get two in one and all we're going to do is we're going to peel off
some of these older leaves and get rid of this older stem this is just a couple
suckers that were growing up right off my lemon tree it needed pruned anyways
so these are great to try in in route because it's new growth and they're
ready to just start to grow so got a lot of energy there and these are the ones
that you want to try it to get to root you can have a lot success if you're
using newer growth rather than older growth so snip this old green part off
here there we go again make sure that all your utensils are
washed down with alcohol and I'm going to actually drill them to the potato
with a drill bit again today just make sure that your drill bits are oil free
alcohol just weight them down cotton swab or whatever just clean those up
alright so I've got my drill bit today a little bit smaller than the rose
cuttings that were using the other day and that looks like about the right size
we want to match up the the width of the stem with the size of the drill bit that
looks like it's going to do there alright now we just gotta put a little
bit the nose drill and the key is on the potato you don't want to go all the way
through it you're gonna go about 3/4 of the way down there we go
oh it's therapeutic I love I could do this all day drilling into potatoes
alright so all I do is just kind of measure this up make sure it's going to
fit down in there and that looks like it's going to do perfect all right that
one's set and we reduce dab a little bit of the honey down into the potato into
our hole there kind of let sit for about 30 seconds so it starts to seep down in
there alright and we're going to use the ground cinnamon kind of like a rooting
powder if you guys ever use rooting powder that's all we're going to do with
the stem of the cutting first thing is we want to cut off of these leaves here
they're too big that's where all our moisture is going to be released from so
by cutting the leaves in half that's going to actually help keep moisture in
the cutting and at the base is where we want most of the moisture to stay so all
right we're going to take our ground center we're going to dab it into the
ground cinnamon just like we would a rooting a hormone powder and there it is
that's all that's needed let's take our potato and then we're gonna go ahead and
we're going to go ahead just insert it in our hole there you can move around
the honey it hasn't gotten down in there yet what's going to happen it's going to
seep down into the hole it's going to create a seal and it's going to be nice
and moist down there that's that potato decomposes it will feed your new lemon
tree all right that one's set happy with that
now you things can go right out into the garden but right now in northern Ohio
it's January we've got five gallon buckets repaired we'll just use some
potting soil in the meantime keep it in a warm environment and should be just
fine we're think our second potato we do the same thing here we go my favorite
part
oK we've drilled down into a potato about three-quarters of the way down
take our second cutting here and this is going to be the clone x method again
we're going to trim up these leaves we're trying to keep and retain moisture
in our cutting and so that way it can concentrate on building roots go we
don't need so much energy from the roots or from the leaves right now
we need it to concentrate on making roots so that's going to help in our
process and we're going to take the clone x guys and they do not like to get
the stuff on my fingers if you guys do get on your hands make sure you wash
right away working with the cap here it makes it a little easier to apply that's
what I do is pour a little in the cap there spread it around on the cut and
you know 10-15 seconds should be long enough for it to kind of sit in there
it's kind of soak in a little bit more once it gets into the potato I'm going
to slide it in there and that's actually fitting really good just like our
all-natural one this one fit in really really good pretty happy with that
alright guys there you go you got your natural way and then you got your clone
x way the natural way was of course with the honey in the cinnamon and then we've
just got regular clone X I'll leave a link down below in the description if
you guys want to go out and try the clone x it works great I'm a lot of
different plants yeah it really helps promote roots so I've got a white tag
and I'm grab a yellow tag remark the white tag with the honey and cinnamon
we're going to wrap it around the base and we'll mark the yellow one with clone
x and wrap it around the base of that cutting that way kind of keep track and
which one does better if they do both make it will have a follow-up video to
that so there it is just going to wrap these around the base again and then
we'll go ahead and stick them in our five-gallon buckets and make sure you do
check back in about three four weeks we'll have a follow-up video to this if
you guys try something else or you try this or if you got some suggestions you
want me to try in another video let me know down below in the description
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