Ever Plant Cuttings in the Wild?

ohiobruce

ohiobruce

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So, for those with the space and leftover common cuttings, do you ever plant them in the wild and leave them unattended? I'm thinking that if I manage to keep some CH cuttings from rotting in the fridge this winter, I might just stick them in the ground around my farm in fence rows, at the edges of fields, in the pasture, etc.

Sure, I doubt they would amount to much, but maybe a few would survive that I could harvest leaves from for tea.
 
Once I clear enough of the overgrown field I’m planning on planting many things including figs. I would suggest a cage around them to start otherwise I think deer and others animals would destroy them before they were large enough to survive. Once they get larger I think they would be fine.
 
I have being contemplating planting some on a friend's land. The thing is, it has some deer and about 2hrs from my place. Still considering it for spring time. Time will tell.
 
We planted a bunch of mulberry cuttings outside one time but none of them made it. It was a very shady spot, and they get literally no attention (I just walked out a year later to see what happed). We scraped the bottom to expose the cambium; they had no rooting hormone or anything. Now mulberry are already hard to root btw I am talking about Morus rubra which I think supposed to be the easiest. When we struck in 3 gallon pots-same treatment we got about 7 to 10 out of 50, so yeah terrible. The last picture shows the ones we did in raised beds, we had about 20 of those that made it.
 
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