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t_corey89

t_corey89

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It was pretty cool to the Scion exchange in DFW over the weekend at the plant nursery by my house. Met some cool people, and got a strawberry verte cutting. Trying to root this and not mess it up! My dad also gave me a bunch of his Celeste tree cuttings. So I’m trying to root those as well. Going to just stick one of the big sticks he gave me straight in the ground and see how that plays out. Yall keep these cuttings in your thoughts and prayers! 😂😂 gotta start some where right?
 
Hey... that's the old school way of doing it... just stick'em in the dirt. personally I prefer rooting outdoors but I got the itch this winter and have a bunch going inside. Please keep us posted on progress all around.
 
TorontoJoe said:
Hey... that's the old school way of doing it... just stick'em in the dirt. personally I prefer rooting outdoors but I got the itch this winter and have a bunch going inside. Please keep us posted on progress all around.
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I think I saw a video of that and thought, hmm if that could work for me that would be awesome. Just have to keep the mutts away from it! I did manage to keep those i258 & JHA air layers alive all year. Will likely put them outside this week since we’ll be above 50 almost every night and getting up to the 70s. Really hoping for some good i258s, JHAs, & CDDB this year!
 
So many things I like about doing it outdoors. usually I do it in a pot. Some really damp well draining potting mix.... I bury the cutting down completely just below the soil line... then I stick the pot under a tree in the shade and leave it alone. They don't suck up water so it's all, "set it and forget it".
 
TorontoJoe said:
So many things I like about doing it outdoors. usually I do it in a pot. Some really damp well draining potting mix.... I bury the cutting down completely just below the soil line... then I stick the pot under a tree in the shade and leave it alone. They don't suck up water so it's all, "set it and forget it".
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Shade? HA! What’s that? My backyard faces directly south. I have to pray my neighbors don’t cut down the big trees surrounding my yard every year. There’s like 3 spots that get some what of a break and that’s about it. Tx sun is brutal. My daughter asks me every year “why do we have so much hay in the back yard” during the summer. 😂😂
 
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There’s some tiny roots forming! A lot of the little bumps are swelling up nicely also! It just so happens that my snake room is around 82-84 degrees year round and kept dark most of the time. So I figured that’d be a good place for this experiment.

No roots showing on the strawberry verte yet though. Same set up, just a smaller bowl.
 
Crazy little cuttings trying to push out figs or leaves with no roots. LOL. Well at least the strawberry verte is doing something! I almost started to lose hope. Looks like this is working pretty well for me so far. I stuck a decent sized branch in the ground the other day, next to a baby cotton wood tree that’s about 20 ft tall. Using that for protection from the dogs until it gets bigger, then I’ll cut the cotton wood tree down.
 

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Crazy little cuttings trying to push out figs or leaves with no roots. LOL. Well at least the strawberry verte is doing something! I almost started to lose hope. Looks like this is working pretty well for me so far. I stuck a decent sized branch in the ground the other day, next to a baby cotton wood tree that’s about 20 ft tall. Using that for protection from the dogs until it gets bigger, then I’ll cut the cotton wood tree down.
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Crazy plants!
 
So…. I took these off of the sand and put in containers. All of these all have nice, thick, white roots. Some are standing up since the roots were on the bottom of the stick, some are laid sideways just under the sand and top soil mixture. Tried to get 50/50, but obviously that didn’t work lol. Winging it as usual. I also gave them a little bit of water. I mixed in like 1/6 of a teaspoon of fertilizer into a gallon of water. Leaving these in my shed since it’ll get to like 75-80s this week all week. Wish me luck! Just another update. Nothing major. Probably just killed all of these. 😂😂😂
 

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So…. I took these off of the sand and put in containers. All of these all have nice, thick, white roots. Some are standing up since the roots were on the bottom of the stick, some are laid sideways just under the sand and top soil mixture. Tried to get 50/50, but obviously that didn’t work lol. Winging it as usual. I also gave them a little bit of water. I mixed in like 1/6 of a teaspoon of fertilizer into a gallon of water. Leaving these in my shed since it’ll get to like 75-80s this week all week. Wish me luck! Just another update. Nothing major. Probably just killed all of these. 😂😂😂
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I don't think I've every seen that where you have enough root development to pot up with no budding out... on that many cuttings at least.

I look forward to pictures of their development... Very cool!
 
I’m no professional by any means. No one should follow what I’m doing as I have barely half an idea. Lmao. This isn’t recommended advice. Just documenting my trials. I have very little to no hope in these surviving. A bunch of the ones I moved to containers has about 2 inches or more of roots, so I figured they’d do better in containers instead of the sand where there’s nothing for them.

Still no roots on the strawberry verte cuttings. Popped off a fig that was sprouting though.
 
t_corey89 said:
I’m no professional by any means. No one should follow what I’m doing as I have barely half an idea. Lmao. This isn’t recommended advice. Just documenting my trials. I have very little to no hope in these surviving. A bunch of the ones I moved to containers has about 2 inches or more of roots, so I figured they’d do better in containers instead of the sand where there’s nothing for them.

Still no roots on the strawberry verte cuttings. Popped off a fig that was sprouting though.
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If the roots didn't get damaged and you can minimize shock from potting up... they should pull through.
 
TorontoJoe said:
That Celeste is a beauty! That must look awesome when it's leafed out
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I’ll get some pics later in the year for you. Him and a guy like 5 streets over have fig trees. The other guy says he has a black mission and one he doesn’t know what it is. I think it’s an Italian honey fig. They’re HUGE yellow honey tasting figs about the size of my palm. I’ll get some pics of those too. My dad’s working on some cuttings that guy gave him. They were doing good last time I was at his house. I’m hoping they make it so I can have one. 😂😂 then I’ll probably be done getting new trees for a while. I want mine to get real big like that.
 
t_corey89 said:
I’ll get some pics later in the year for you. Him and a guy like 5 streets over have fig trees. The other guy says he has a black mission and one he doesn’t know what it is. I think it’s an Italian honey fig. They’re HUGE yellow honey tasting figs about the size of my palm. I’ll get some pics of those too. My dad’s working on some cuttings that guy gave him. They were doing good last time I was at his house. I’m hoping they make it so I can have one. 😂😂 then I’ll probably be done getting new trees for a while. I want mine to get real big like that.
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Yeah man! Please show us.... I have to see this big figs too. Sound awesome!
 
I am obsessed with big figs. I often get led astray by threads about large size fig trees when I am attracted to finding growing, and consuming fig fruits the size of baseballs. Gigantosaurus sized fruits are definitely my thing.
 
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