August 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
Maple Tree Cuttings Update
It’s been 7 weeks since I first planted my maple tree cuttings. Every few days I’ve had to remove a cutting that was failing to root, but I still have 10 trees that are looking good. A 42% success rate is pretty good considering in the past all of my cuttings have failed.
I don’t know why certain ones rooted and others didn’t, but I do I think the reason that at least some of them rooted was due to the new medium I was recently told to use: 1/2 coarse sand and 1/2 perlite.
My current count is 4 Trident maples and 6 Japanese maples.
Here’s a photo of one of the Trident maples that has already put out some new leaves:
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good!!!
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October 1st, 2008 at 5:40 pmI’m interested in knowing more about growing a maple tree from cuttings. We have a maple tree that was here when my grandparents moved here in 1960. The tree is almost dead. Last year I got some seeds hoping to grow a descendant, but all the seeds were eaten by something. This year I was hoping to get more seeds, but the tree didn’t make any. I think this will be its last year, as it only has one small branch with any leaves. If I could grow a descendant from cuttings from that branch that would fulfill my goal. I would greatly appreciate knowing how you went about starting maple trees from cuttings, as well as an update on how they did over the winter.
Thank you very much.
Gordon
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May 14th, 2009 at 8:28 pm