The brink of death?

Ikibahd

Ikibahd

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How often are you able to revive newly rooted cuttings when they begin to lose their brand new leaves?

I am theorizing that my mix either started out too dry (out of an abundance of caution *see fear* of them rotting)… Or that because it was drier to start, it dried out too much for the safety of the new growth.

Regardless, one thing that I have been consistent with is heavily misting the baby cuttings by hand at least once per day. I feel that this misting buys some time, if, perhaps, only to delay the inevitable. However, with careful application of a little bit of actual watering, some of these seem to be recovering.

I am not going to count my chickens before they hatch, but I feel like I may save many of these that may have otherwise slowly shriveled away… only time will tell.

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The truth is that it’s completely dependent on the cause. I’ve had cuttings in cups drop leaves and come back 10 times before spring and grow into a huge tree because they got a touch to dry. On the other hand a root rot is once and done for me. I’ve tried cutting the bottoms off and end up with 1 out of 100 being saved after root rot.
 
The 2nd and 4th would probably make it, not sure about the 1st and 3rd. I would probably graft those before they pass the point of no return.

In terms of whether cuttings can be saved if losing new leaves, I agree that depends on the reason(s). There are many things that can go wrong. Figuring it out before too late makes rooting cuttings interesting.

Misting is an important part of some cutting propagation at commercial operations. e.g. herbs are often misted multiple times per hour during the propagation.
 
I would say it totally depends upon cause.
Root rot: It’s over! (At least for me)
Too dry; if you catch it early and don’t go the other way giving it too much water, then they have a decent shot.
Lack of roots: sometimes I think cuttings push out leaves before roots and can’t support them thus it drops them. If this is the case as long as you baby it, most of mine have come back from this.
 
I’ll post an update or two down the road and see which of these bounce back, but so far signs look good for all but 2 or 3 of my cuttings (I only took pics of these 4, but many had some halted times / dying small leaves at some point in the past month)
 
Here’s an update on my cuttings that have had various stages of me thinking I may have lost them.

The first pic in the original post is the only one that didn’t bounce back - I have a single node cutting that isn’t doing anything yet and I used another node to graft (which I just made another post about).

The rest are all showing good signs of life / some are thriving: (note the first cutting is my CDD Gris that had looked mostly dead but now has a couple nodes swelling and one new leaf emerging from where it originally grew and shriveled up)

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You’ve done well! Bravo! 👏

For me ….. when I had loss of leaves I’ve recovered them sometimes, but not always

What I really pay close attention to is any sign of rot. Any indication of rotting means that life is quickly leaving the cutting….. from my experience that’s the situation where there’s little chance. Maybe a node if you’re skilled in grafting

Yours look happy. I look forward to seeing them grow! :)
 
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