This afternoon I potted-up about sixty rooted berry cuttings. They included the following delicacies: Red currants, black currants, white currants, jostaberries, black gooseberries, red gooseberries, green gooseberries, and goumi. The cuttings were taken in February and early March, five or six stuck into each one-gallon nursery pot. Today, roughly one hundred days later, I separated the successful rooted cuttings from the duds, and gave each rooted plant it’s own pot. In the autumn, as the days shorten and the plants begin thinking about dropping their leaves, I’ll plant them all out into their final positions in and around the field. This sort of propagation is tremendously satisfying in it’s simplicity: No heat mats, greenhouses, mist apparatus or growlightrs, just cold weather slowly warming as winter turns into summer. In March, the cuttings’ vegetative buds break into leaf, and rooting occurs soon after. It would be a miracle if science hadn’t yet weeded out miracles. Either way, it is a beautiful process.
a pot of red currant cuttings, four rooted and one rotten
one hundred days of roots
four cuttings separated and ready for their new pots
tucking in
potting complete, waiting for watering-in and sunshine
Tagged: Plants, Propagation